September 25, 2017 Archives

Week of September 25, 2017 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, September 25

There's Nothing 'Old' Age About this Bull Stock Market

Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View

Finance Chiefs Are Increasingly Pessimistic About the Future

Ciara Linnane, MW

Many Investors Have Seemingly Learned Nothing from History

At This Stage of the Bull Your Portfolio Should Have FANGs

Ken Fisher, USA Today

Why Emerging Markets May Be Due for Their Comeback

Ben Carlson, Bloomberg

To Protect Jobs Is To Neuter Ever-Precious Human Potential

Allan Golombek, RCM

It's the Spending, Silly: Our Budget Deficits Really Don't Matter

John Tamny, Forbes

Here's Why Those Surveys Of Trump Tax Cuts Are Highly Misleading

Donald Trump Is Big Coal's Last Realistic Gasp

Jonathan Thompson, The New Republic

The Sad Age of Corporate Welfare Is Upon Us

Andrew Wilford, The American Spectator

Why Texas Isn't Feeling As Miraculous As Before

Richard Parker, New York Times

America's Econ Engine Is Being Slowed by Complacency

George Will, National Review

Push for Tech Gender Equality? Some Men Say It's Gone Too Far

Nellie Bowles, NYT

McCain Killed ACA Repeal, Wounded Tax Reform In 1 Blow

Jed Graham, Investor's

Voters, Not Congress, Will Suffer the ACA's Bailout

Jonathan Decker, Roanoke Times

Universities' Large Endowments Are Going Untaxed

Jonathon Trugman, New York Post

Tuesday, September 26

Ignore Naysayers, a Corporate Tax Cut Helps Everyone

Ed Feulner, Washington Times

Do Republicans Really Care About Budget Deficit?

Jared Bernstein, New York Times

It Is Absolutely Crucial That Republicans Pass Tax Cuts

Thomas Del Beccaro, Forbes

GOP Won't Ask How Much We Should Raise Taxes on Rich

Jason Sattler, USA Today

'I've Always Been A 'Doer,' And Can't Figure Out the Tax Code'

Bill O'Neill, Investor's

NFL Players Have Forgotten That Injustice Is a Relative Concept

John Tamny, RCM

In His Fight w/NFL, Trump Embraces Political Correctness

Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg

Good Games Are Really the Only Point of NFL

Geoffrey Norman, American Spectator

Wilbur Ross Wants to Strip NAFTA of What Makes It Great

Allan Golombek, RCM

Despite the Headlines, Reasons to Stay Bullish on Market

Jeff Reeves, MarketWatch

The Real Threats to the Ongoing Equity Bull Market

Nicholas Colas, Bloomberg View

How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

Econ. Equality As a Prerequisite for Constitutionalism

James Rogers, Law and Liberty

More Than We Want to Admit, Transients Undone by Choices

Steven Malanga, CJ

Millions Wait and See If Feds Will Take Their Healthcare

David Dayen, New Republic

Obamacare Can Only Exist with Bailout Funds

Jonathan Decker & Phil Kerpen, Federalist

Wednesday, September 27

NFL Is On a Fan-Alienating, Ratings Wrecking Suicide Course

James Robbins, USAT

How the Biggest U.S. Banks Became Our Masters

Rana Foroohar, New York Times

Why Trump Must Nix Banking Scold Richard Cordray

John Berlau, American Spectator

The Retirement 'Rules of Thumb' That Are Likely Wrong

Christy Bieber, Motley Fool

Want to Help Puerto Rico? Repeal the Jones Act

Allan Golombek, RealClearMarkets

Investors Should Prepare for Market's October Surprise

Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

So Few Stock-Market Winners, So Much Dead Weight

Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View

New Book, New MSFT Culture, a Nonsense Answer

Jena McGregor, Washington Post

The Fall, Rise and Fall of Schumpeter's Creative Destruction

Justin Fox, Bloomberg

Why Trump's Tax Reform Won't Fix America's Budget Mess

Shawn Tully, Fortune

The Federal Reserve Is Perhaps Anticipating Tax Reform

Brian Domitrovic, Forbes

Will a Corporate Tax Holiday Give Workers Anything to Cheer?

Eduardo Porter, NYT

52 to 19 Percent - How Great Britain Shrank Its Corporate Tax

Nathan Lewis, Forbes

Socialism Has Yet to Generate the Utopia It Promises

Richard Rahn,Washington Times

Thursday, September 28

On Tax Reform, The GOP Buys Into the 'Tax Fairness' Lie

Editorial, Investor's Business

Why CEOs Fear That Tax Reform Won't Ultimately Measure Up

Shawn Tully, Fortune

There's Much to Like In the Tax Reform Bill

Wayne Brough, The American Spectator

Is the Bond-Market Selloff An Effect of All the Tax Cut Talk?

Sunny Oh, MarketWatch

The Republican Tax Plan Is a Huge Win For the Middle Class

Sen. Orrin Hatch, USAT

Don't Blame Active Manager Underperformance on Fees

Aaron Brown, Bloomberg

Why Settle for Financial Security When You Can Retire Rich?

Wendy Connick, MF

How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve

Sarah Binder & Mark Spindel, Bloomberg

Trying to Solve Mystery of Job Openings and Unemployment

Andy Smarick, TWS

A History of the Editorial Page That Changed History

Lauren Weiner, Law and Liberty

Post Maria, Puerto Rico's Bonholders Shouldn't Expect a Bailout

Nicole Gelinas, CJ

Multi-Billion Dollar Stadiums: The Seen vs. the Horrid Unseen

Allan Golombek, RCM

Are the NFL Protests 'Massively, Massively' Hurting NFL Ratings?

Mike Snider, USA

Friday, September 29

Trump Tax Cuts Rely on False Notion That "Rich" Tax Cuts Stimulate

If the GOP Tax Plan Is Bad for Trump, Then It's Bad For All of Us

John Tamny, RCM

Corporate Tax Cuts Great For Companies, Better for Workers

Editorial, Investor's

How the Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts

Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker

A Lower 'Pass-Through' Rate Doesn't Boost Wealth Creation

Allan Golombek, RCM

A Favorable Market for Equities at Least Until 2019

Byron Wien, The Blackstone Group

Some of the Market Myths That Bring Harm to Investors

Ben Carlson, Bloomberg

Why It's Best to Delay Retirement Until After Age of 66

Selena Maranjian, Motley Fool

The Financial and Emotional Aspects of Buying a Home

Charlotte Cowles, New York

Seattle Is a Petri Dish of Progressive Economic Ideas

George Will, National Review

For Uber in London, There's a New Route: Diplomacy

James Stewart, New York Times

Now Is a Good Time for Congress to 'Bench' the NFL

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Hoping Its Fans Give the NFL Another Chance

Ross Kaminsky, The American Spectator

Cheers to Mario Draghi for Engineering Euro Area Econ. Bliss

Sean Rushton, The Hill

Global Monetary System Not As a Backwards Looking Fed Sees It

Jeff Snider, RCM

Saturday, September 30

A Modest Blow for Fiscal Responsibility in Connecticut

Red Jahncke, National Review

Ways Your Taxes Might Go Up Under the GOP's Plan

Matthew Frankel, Motley Fool

Trump Aggressively Takes Control of the Tax Issue

Larry Kudlow, National Review

Trump Is Wrong, A Weak Dollar Doesn't Make A Strong Economy

John Tamny, WSJ

Something's Bad in AMZN's Request for Proposals

Andrew Wilson, American Spectator

Don't Let Puerto Rico Fall Into Economic Abyss

Solomon Hsiang & Trevor Houser, NYT

Despite What Is Said, Fees Are Not the Enemy of Investors

Jared Dillian, Bloomberg

Buffett's DJIA 1M Call Isn't Outrageous, But Not In Your Lifetime

Adam Shell, USAT

The Fed Believes It's Risky to Distort Markets With Rate Moves

Tim Duy, Bloomberg

California's Latest Bad Idea — Outlaw Gas-Powered Cars

Editorial, Investor's Business

Homebuilders Lure Millennials w/ Student Loan Payments

Daniel Gross, Strategy+

Some Additional Thoughts on Why College Costs So Much

Ryan Huber, Arc Digital

Why Retiring Rich Is More Difficult Than You May Think

Dan Caplinger, Motley Fool

How You Can Avoid Some of the More Common IRA Errors

Robert Powell, USA Today