December 24, 2018 Archives

Week of December 24, 2018 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, December 24

Unless You Know Bad Things Others Don't, Embrace the Volatility

Ken Fisher, USAT

Blame Federal Reserve tor Tanking Stock Market

Jonathon Trugman, New York Post

Treasury's Odd Attempt to Soothe Investors May Have Backfired

Mike Murphy, MW

Why President Trump Should Aggressively Take On the Fed

Editorial, New York Sun

How Economically Harmful If Fed Could Falsify the Yield Curve

John Tamny, Forbes

Mark Zuckerberg Should Tell Busybody Politicians To Kiss Off

Kevin Williamson, NR

With a New Owner Fortune Has a New Future, Fresh Challenge

Alan Murray, Fortune

Why the Time Has Come for a Green "New Deal"

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

What Life Inside Venezuela's Authoritarian Regime Looks Like

Jake Grant, FEE

Heed Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Faces a Fiscal Nightmare

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills

Eduardo Porter, NYT

Top Paying Jobs In 2019: How to Find One In a Fast-Growing Field

Paul Katzeff, IBD

Wednesday, December 26

Whatever Donald Trump Says, Jerome Powell Is Not the Problem

Bill Saporito, NYT

In Conferring With the Banks, Sec'y Mnuchin Was Doing His Job

Editorial, Investor's

What Was Secretary Mnuchin Thinking? Some Possibilities

Annie Lowrey, Atlantic

Trump Renews Fed Attacks as Mnuchin Spooks Mkt.

Alan Rappeport, New York Times

Why Rules-Based Policies Won't Tame Federal Reserve

Jeff Deist, Washington Times

Oren Cass's Blue-Collar Pander Exposes Him as Wholly Distant

John Tamny, RCM

Are the Market Declines Signaling a Downturn In 2019?

Paul Davidson, USA Today

This Looks Just Like a Correction, Not Something Worse

Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

Sorry, No One Was Forced To Take On Student Debt

Allan Golombek, RealClearMarkets

No Washington Post, the Virgin Mary Was Not a Socialist

Jerry Bowyer, Town Hall

How Gramps' Depression Stories Saved Recession Christmas

Thuan Le Elston, USAT

Divining the Meaning of Christmas

Lawrence Reed, Foundation for Economic Education

The Venezuelan Exodus No Longer Just Regional Crisis

J. Mauricio Gaona, Examiner

Why Are We So Surprised By Data Scandals at Facebook?

Zachary Karabell, Wired

I, Pencil & the Vital Message of "I Don't Know"

Gary Galles, Foundation for Economic Edu.

Thursday, December 27

Why Investors Should Tune Out All the Stock-Market Unrest

Robert Johnson, The Hill

Economy and Earnings Signal No Bear Market In 2019

Ivan Martchev, MarketWatch

Stock-Market Imponderables: How Long Will the Bear Last?

Ben Stein, Spectator

Remove 'Excess of Capitalism,' Remove Its Essence

Allan Golombek, RealClearMarkets

Donald Trump's Fed Attacks Show He Doesn't Know How It Works

Josh Barro, NYM

What the New York Times' Facebook Investigation Really Says

Will Oremus, Slate

Some of the Ways to Win the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Klaus Schwab, Fortune

The Left Is Taking Aim at Pelosi's Deficit Obsession

David Dayen, The New Republic

The Old Myth That Standard Oil Was a Predatory Monopoly

David Weinberger, FEE

When the Only Problem w/Your Job Is an Unhappy Boss

Rob Walker, New York Times

I Used to Write for SI. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.

Austin Murphy, Atlantic

Tolerate Diversity in Wealth Too

Richard Salsman, American Institute for Economic Research

Friday, December 28

Amid Shutdown, What Can Taxpayers Expect From the IRS?

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes

Why Some Investors Fear 'Wicked Bear Trap' In Rebound

William Watts, MarketWatch

Making Bullish Case for Equities In Perilous Times

Lawrence Hamtil, Fortune Financial

Once Wise Economists Abase Themselves In Face of Trumpism

Paul Krugman, NYT

Steve Forbes Is @His Brilliant Best In PBS's 'In Money We Trust?'

John Tamny, RCM

Japan's Experience Calls to Mind Nightmare for Fed

James Soriano, American Thinker

Boom Died Months Ago, and Had Nothing to Do with Rate Hikes

Jeffrey Snider, RCM

Shutdowns Always Backfire—Especially on Republicans

Brian Riedl, The Daily Beast

Trump's Personnel Problems Harm U.S.'s Financial Stability

Benjamin Edwards, Hill

'Giant Sucking Sound' Is High-Skilled Workers Leaving U.S.

Allan Golombek, RCM

The Dickensian Tragedy of Britain's Growing Poverty

Katy Fallon, The New Republic

With Trade, There Are No Losers

Don Boudreaux, American Institute for Economic Research

Saturday, December 29

Do Not Count On A Market Tumble To Topple Trump

Charles Gasparino, New York Post

How President Trump and Amazon Will Dominate In 2019

Stephen Carter, Bloomberg

One Chart Tells This Week's Crazy Market Tale

Jessica Marmor Shaw, MarketWatch

President Trump Should Relax About the Stock Market

Rich Lowry, National Review

A Gutted Internal Revenue Service Makes the Rich Richer

Editorial, New York Times

If the Robots Are Coming, It's to Help You Work Better

Oren Cass, Los Angeles Times

The Work of the Future Is Going to Blow Your Mind

John Tamny, Forbes/Ashford Univ.

Why You Can Stop Worrying About Having a Perfect Credit Score

Peter Dunn, USAT

Could Venezuela's Socialist Disaster Get Any Worse?

Editorial, Investor's Business

Trump's Tax Cut One Year Later: What Happened?

Jim Tankersley, New York Times

Fight to Save Ind. Health Care in Age of Medical Monopoly

Ted Alcorn, New Republic

15 Things to Know About Gov't Shutdown

Joe Carter, Foundation for Economic Education