June 24, 2019 Archives

Week of June 24, 2019 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, June 24

Putting Out To Pasture "Sell In May" And Other Market Myths

Ken Fisher, USA Today

Getting Your Social Security Fixed May Be Best Financial Plan

Jeff Sommer, NYT

How Governments Can Avert Big Public-Pension Crises

Josh McGee, National Affairs

In the Workplace, Expertise Is Actually Falling Out of Favor

Jerry Useem, The Atlantic

Don't Underestimate Significance of Facebook's Libra Currency

John Tamny, Forbes

Critics of Mackenzie Bezos Miss the Point of Giving Pledge

Peter Lipsett, Examiner

Patients Need to Know How Much Health Care Costs

Steve Moore, Washington Times

Global Supply Chains Make Protectionism Ever More Costly

Allan Golombek, RCM

Bernie Sanders's Socialism: Unimaginative Echo of FDR

George Will, National Review

Why Robots Will Boost Our Productivity: Int. wMark Mills

Steve Forbes, What's Ahead

Addressing AOC's Latest Absurd Attack on Amazon Wages

Jonathon Trugman, NYP

Breaking Up Technology Giants Is Well Out of Tune Error

Ed Black, RealClearMarkets

Getting CA Building Again: Google's Billion Dollar Bet

Michael Hendrix, City Journal

How Microsoft is Tackling Homelessness in Home City of Seattle

Sarah Max, Worth

Tuesday, June 25

How Nashville is Transforming Itself Into Global City

Jennifer Justus, Worth Magazine

How Indianapolis Can Mimic Southern Boomtowns Like Nashville

Aaron Renn, IBJ

Why Are Liz Warren & Donald Trump Trying to Weaken Dollar?

Ruchir Sharma, NYT

Trump Is Talking the Dollar - and the U.S. Economy - Into Retreat

John Tamny, RCM

Arthur Laffer's Impact Was Global, Helped Billions

Richard Rahn, Washington Times

As the Rich Leave New York, It's the Poor Who Will Be Hurt Most

Kristin Tate, Hill

We Aim to Create Wealth Because It Leads to a Better World

Allan Golombek, RCM

How to Find Retirement Income Amid Historically Low Rates

Paul Katzeff, Investor's

What the Fed Said, and Didn't Say, Last Wednesday

Market Minder, Fisher Investments

To Cure My Perma-Bear-Itis, I Developed Process

Seth Levine, The Integrating Investor

Sen. Sanders' Loan Plan Insults Intelligence of Intended Beneficiaries

What Sets Debt Plan Crafted by Sanders Apart from Others

Adam Harris, Atlantic

Huawei Digs In For a Long Battle with United States

Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post

Government Should Take a Scalpel, Not An Axe, to Big Tech

Robert Litan, The Hill

Protectionists in Plunderland & Wonderland

Don Boudreaux, Am. Inst. for Econ. Research

Wednesday, June 26

I'm in 1 Percent. I'm Asking You to Please Raise My Taxes.

Eli Broad, New York Times

Wealth Taxes and Income Inequality, & Buffoonery

Kevin Williamson, National Review

If You're In Middle, Biden Wants to Raise Your Taxes

Ryan Ellis, Washington Examiner

The Problem With Stablecoin Is That People Must Believe It

Josh Barro, New York

FB's "Libra" Could Be For Money What Henry Ford Was to Cars

Steve Forbes, Forbes

If Facebook and Apple are Feuding, How Are they Monopolies?

Patrick Hedger, OM

IPO Parade Marches On While Corporate Governance Suffers

Kurt Schacht, The Hill

Amid Market Boasts By Trump, Some Warning Signs

Mark DeCambre, MarketWatch

From UK, Guidance for SEC's Oversight of Proxy Advisors

Bernard Sharfman, RCM

The Ten Most Powerful Hedge Fund Managers For the Year

Michelle Celarier, Worth

Far Too Many Are Wasting Worry On the Robot

John Tierney, American Consequences

FDIC's Op Chokepoint Settlement Doesn't Make Victim's Whole

C. Boyden Gray, RCM

The American Way to Beat China In a Crucial Race to 5G

Brian Carney, New York Post

Trump's Trade War Is Wrong Way to Compete With China

Tom Donilon, Foreign Affairs

Thursday, June 27

How Do Rich Neighborhoods Exist So Close to Poor Nabes?

Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic

A Postmortem of Federal Reserve's Failed Attempt to Normalize

Douglas Carr, Hill

Be Serious, President Trump Doesn't Prefer 'Low Interest Rates'

John Tamny, RCM

Trade Wars Aren't Way to Bring Back America's Middle Class

Garvin Jabusch, Worth

More Reasons to Doubt Alleged Trade War's Bite

Market Minder, Fisher Investments

Why Isn't American Business Siding With Trump Against China?

Gordon Chang, Fox

The 'New Normal' of Slow Growth Is Growing Very Old

Caroline Baum, MarketWatch

The Greens Are Angry That Trump Is Deregulating the Oil Patch

Robert Bradley, NR

Can Congress Help Americans Save For Retirement?

Joe Barnett, American Spectator

Are You Part of Middle Class? Here Are Some Defining Traits

Matthew Frankel, MF

The Middle Class Will Pay Big for All the Dems' 'Free Stuff'

Editors, Issues & Insights

Why America's Child Care Crisis Is an Economic Crisis

Bryce Covert, New York Times

The Tax Questions Dems Should Be Asked at Debates, but Won't Be

Canceling Student Debt Would Boost Economy

Richard Eskow & Sean McElwee, Nation

Some of the Economic Questions the Debaters Should Be Asked

Ari Fleischer, USAT

Friday, June 28

I Am a Billionaire With A Much Better Idea Than A Wealth Tax

Ken Fisher, USA Today

Comparing Baseball Pay to Teacher Pay Reveals Confusion

Davies & Harrigan, FEE

The World's Top Stock Market? Right Now, It's Russia

Matt Phillips, New York Times

How Your Lotto Habit Can Fatten Retirement Savings

Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business

Odds Are Overwhelming That Bitcoin Will Soon Correct

Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

Bitter Sibling Rivalry Burning Up an $800M Louisiana Oil Dynasty

Ian Frisch, NYM

Long Before Max, BA Had History of Not Fixing Safety Problems

Michael Laris, WP

Infrastructure Spending Can Boost Econ., Climate

Anderson, Nunn & Shambaugh, RCM

It's Increasingly Likely the Fed Will Reduce Rates This Summer

Gregory Daco, Hill

A 'Second-Half Rebound' Is a Mythical, Unicorn-Like Concept

Jeffrey Snider, RCM

Real Workers Know More About Economy Than Liz Warren

Jenna Ellis, Examiner

How Bill De Blasio Has Bloated New York City's Budget

Nicole Gelinas, New York Post

I Wouldn't Bet On Libra Solving Volatility Problem

Kevin Williamson, National Review

There's More To Like In Mark Zuckerberg's Aspen Talk Than Not

Patrick Hedger, OM

Saturday, June 29

Never Forget Bull Markets Are the Authors of Bear Markets

Michael Cannivet, Forbes

Corporations' Social Crusades Often Leave Out Their Workers

Amanda Mull, Atlantic

Andre Iguodala Invests with Technorati Who Attend His Games

End Subsidies & Put Electric Vehicles to the Market Test

Bernard Weinstein, The Hill

Should We Get Rid of Housing's Mortgage Interest Deduction?

Art Carden, Forbes

Terminator Myth: It's Not Robots That Hurt Workers

Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute

Ajit Pai Didn't Kill the Internet — He Made It Stronger

Michi Iljazi, Washington Examiner

Markets, Not Politicians, Control Law of Supply and Demand

Veronique de Rugy, TAS

A Wall Street Bailout for Student Loans? We Already Have That

Jason Delisle, NRO

Sanders' Student Debt Repeal Doesn't Make Much Sense

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Are We Certain Eliminating Private Insurance is a Good Idea?

Peter Suderman, NYT

Let's Revive the Term 'Individualism'

Stephen Davies, American Institute for Econ. Research