August 27, 2018 Archives

Week of August 27, 2018 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, August 27

What Your Boss Could Learn By Reading Company Emails

Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic

Who Deserves Credit for the Record Run In the Stock Market?

Ken Fisher, USA Today

The Bulls Have Punished the Bears In Normally Awful August

Mark DeCambre, MW

The Worst 401(k) Funds Are Tax Advantaged Ones

Reuben Gregg Brewer, Motley Fool

Kathy Kraninger Has Necessary Tools to Rein In Unruly CFPB

Ed D'Alessio, The Hill

To Weaken Banks, Put One-Size-Fits-All Capital Reqs On Them

John Tamny, Forbes

Money & Politics Are Keeping Houston From Recovering

Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly

No Time Like the Present for Tax Reform 2.0

Jesse Hathaway, Washington Examiner

Why the Message of Socialism Is Resonating In 2018

Corey Robin, New York Times

Is There Such a Thing As A Tax for Being a Woman?

Editorial, Investor's Business Daily

High School Retirement Planning? It's Never Too Early, Some Say

Ann Carrns, NYT

Venezuela's Nightmare Is Rapidly Spreading to Neighbors

Benny Avni, New York Post

Who Lost Lehman? Could It Have Been Saved?

Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

No Evidence Parents Can Buy Their Kids Into Pro Sports

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Tuesday, August 28

Paul Singer's Adversarial, Profitable Way of Doing Business

Sheelah Kolhatkar, TNY

What a Trump Impeachment Could Really Mean For the Markets

John Crudele, NYP

Ways New Retirees Can Shield Themselves from Bad Markets

Maurie Backman, MF

New 'Not NAFTA' Deal Isn't Free Trade, but Better Than Nothing

Editorial, Investor's

New NAFTA Is Bad For the United States, Faces a Wall of Obstacles

Editorial, USAT

Trump's Deal With Mexico Is a Huge Win for Both Countries

Christian Whiton, Fox

Trump Tax Cuts Were Going to Depress Housing. They Didn't

Jim Tankersley, NYT

Why U.S. Corporate Boards No Longer Include Workers

Justin Fox, Bloomberg View

It Turns Out Lampert Was Right About Sears's Land

Michael Corkery, New York Times

Improving Health Care Through Occupational Licensing Reform

How U.S. States Use Policy to Compete for Citizens

Richard Rahn, Washington Times

Great Plains Metropolis: The Story of OKC, Past & Present

Aaron Renn, City Journal

Farm Bailout Is Wrong, So Are Policies That Made It Necessary

Valerie Zombek, TAS

Elizabeth Warren Has Big Plans That SCOTUS May Thwart

Matt Ford, New Republic

Liz Warren Shows How To Destroy Value of Work and Property

Don Boudreaux, AIER

Wednesday, August 29

My Family Escaped Sociaism, the Dems Are Trying to Revive It

Giancarlo Sopo, USA

As Dems Go Socialist, Elizabeth Warren Flirts With Capitalism

Franklin Foer, Atlantic

Donald Trump Has Ends Obama's War on Coal

Rep. Steve Scalise, Washington Examiner

Trump's Mexico Deal Is Fake, But Extremely Important

Heather Hurlburt, New York

Ocasio-Cortez Rips 'Unregulated Uber,' Spends $4,000 on Uber

Editorial, Investor's

Donald Trump Wisely Wades Into Quarterly Earnings Question

C. Wallace Dewitt, NR

Taxpayers Strike Out When Made to Pay for New Stadiums

Kaden & Talgo, Spectator

A Green Light for U.S. Banks to Start 'Redlining' Again

Jesse Van Tol, New York Times

The LT Impact of Kaiser Steel's Plant Closure in Fontana, CA

Michael Bernick, Forbes

Seemingly Wise Fin Moves That Could Come Back to Hurt You

Maurie Backman, MF

Does Amazon Have More Power Than Federal Reserve?

David Dayen, New Republic

Theory As to Why Google's Power Should Worry Americans

Editorial, New York Post

Conservatives Unite Inside Facebook HQ

Kate Conger & Sheera Frenkel, New York Times

Next Tax Reform Should Include a 'Giving Fix' To Help Charities

Howard Husock, Hill

Thursday, August 30

The Myth About Cell Phone 'Addiction'

Richard Vatz & Jeffrey Schaler, Washington Times

After Robots, Who Will Work For A Paycheck?

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New Republic

Robots Will Cause Us to Fall In Love With Work

John Tamny, Cayman Financial Review

Capitalist Marketplace Is Where People Find Fulfillment

Kyle Smith, National Review

Stable Money Is Crucial: What's Path Back to Gold Standard?

Steve Forbes, Forbes

If Lenders Can't Collect on Debts, There Will Be Very Little Debt

Kyle Burgess, RCM

Household Income Jumps Under Trump: Why Isn't This News?

Editorial, Investor's

Environmental Regulations Are a Big Tax On the Poor

Ross Marchand, Economics21

How Retirees Can Begin Their Year-End Financial Planning Now

Robert Powell, USA

Side Jobs: Retirement Hobbies That Make Money

Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business

President Trump's Ludicrous Attack on Big Technology

Kara Swisher, New York Times

Why Google Doesn't Rank Right-Wing Outlets As Highly

Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic

The Tariffs Levied on Foreign Steel Are Saving U.S. Jobs

Thomas Gibson, USA Today

How Special Interests Hide the True Cost of Tariffs

Veronique de Rugy, New York Times

Friday, August 31

Don't Believe the GDP Figure, or Any Other Number for That Matter

Justin Fox, BBW

GDP and Gross Output Reveal a Tax-Cut Related Boom

Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial

Gross Domestic Product Only Part of Economic Story

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Will a Rising Stock Market Launch Republicans to Victory?

Robert Johnson, The Hill

Sen. Warren May Take Aim at Corporate Cronyism

Daniel Flynn, American Spectator

Trump Has Flipped on Fed. Will Conservatives Join Him?

Jeff Stein, Washington Post

Someone Isn't Agreeing With the Fed's Groupthink

Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets

Growth of Middle Class May Be the Greatest Story of Our Age

Jon Miltimore, FEE

Thank Capitalism for the Coming Global Middle Class Majority

Editorial, Investor's

Why You Shouldn't Retire Super Early, Even If You Can

Alessandra Malito, MarketWatch

How Ocasio-Cortez Makes a Case against Socialism

Katherine Timpf, National Review

Is Global Warming Rapidly Making California Unlivable

Emily Atkin, The New Republic

San Diego Padres Found a Way to Monetize Bad Baseball

Jeremy Venook, Atlantic

As Nature of Work Changes, Closing the 'Skills Gap'

V. Brett Melvin, Washington Times

Aretha Franklin Estate Problems Underscore Importance Of a Will

Paul Katzeff, IBD

Saturday, September 1

Apple, Google, Strike a Blow Against the College Cartel

Hess & Addison, NRO

Students Are Abandoning Humanities Majors

Benjamin Schmidt, The Atlantic

Actually, Self-Driving Cars Will Create a Lot of Jobs

Timothy Lee, Ars Technica

Man's Work Begins With His Vocation: Work Is Like Falling In Love

Why The US Is Enjoying An Economic Boom

Noah Smith, Bloomberg

Baby Boomers "Take It To The Limit"

Leslie Albrecht, MarketWatch

Booming? Nearly Half of Americans Can't Make Ends Meet

David Lazarus, LA Times

The Bad and Good News for Value Investing

John Rekenthaler, Morningstar

Saving Capitalism from Economics 101

Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate

How TripAdvisor Turned an Industry Upside Down

Linda Kinstler, The Guardian

How the War on Climate Change Slams the World's Poor

Bjorn Lomborg, NYPost

South Korea Scrambles to Avoid Going the Way of Japan

Bryan Harris, OZY

In Venezuela, New Cryptocurrency Is Nowhere to Be Found

Brian Ellsworth, Reuters

Precious as Silver: Vanilla Brings Cash, Crime to Madagascar

Finbarr O'Reilly, NYT