July 15, 2019 Archives

Week of July 15, 2019 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, July 15

Mac Pro Shows How Business Is Way Too Fast For Politicians

Allan Golombek, RCM

Trump's Tariffs Levied On China Are Working

Rep. Rick Crawford, Washington Examiner

Don't Let All the Wild Campaign Promises Scare You from Market

Ken Fisher, USAT

Should Investors Ready For Shock & Awe Campaign from Fed?

Chris Matthews, MW

'Gold Bug' Types Sold Out Their Economic Principles Long Ago

Paul Krugman, NYT

Krugman Is Just Angry with Himself That He Agrees wTrump

Editorial, New York Sun

The Fed Will Fix Its Own Fumble With a Rate Cut

Jonathon Trugman, New York Post

Meet El Salvador, Slayer Of Keynesian & Monetarist Mysticism

John Tamny, Forbes

President Trump Aims to End the Unfairest Tax of All

Steve Moore, Washington Times

U.S. Needs New Perot to Tell Truth About Government Spending

Mark Sanford, TDC

Hong Kong: A Free City, Under a Dark Shadow

Kevin Williamson, National Review Online

Congress Moves to Put the PBGC On Taxpayer Dole

Alex Pollock, RealClearMarkets

Megan Rapinoe Understands Econ.

Sam Frank, American Institute for Economic Research

Driverless Cars Taking Longer Than We Expected. Here's Why

Clyde Haberman, NYT

Tuesday, July 16

Private Sector Doesn't Need Laws to Fix Environment

Richard Rahn, Washington Times

The Right Wants to Blow Up Internet to Punish 'Big Tech'

Taylor Hatmaker, Daily Beast

Legislative Challenges Facing Dems If They Win the WH In 2020

Henry Aaron, RCM

The Narrow Way to a Better Banking System In the U.S.

Laurence Kotlikoff, The Hill

Left & Right Agree About the Fed, and That's Too Bad

John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

Don't Allow Politicians to Ruin Inexpensive Air Travel

Pete Sepp, Washington Examiner

Beware. Other Nations Will Copy France's Digital Tax

Lilian Faulhaber, New York Times

History Tells Us Value Investors Have Cause for Optimism

Eric Nelson, Servo Wealth

What You Should Contribute to 401(k) to Retire with $2 Million

Emmie Martin, CNBC

The Only Places Left for Retirees to Make Buck on Savings

Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes

Manhattan: Infrastructure Doesn't Only Exist When It Fails

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic

Bad Goverment Policy Begets Worse In U.S. Aluminum Market

Andrew Quinlan,RCM

Iraq Has Potential to Challenge Saudi OPEC Dominance

Simon Watkins, OilPrice.com

How Bureaucrats Ruin Everything, Dishwashers to Cars

John Merline,Issues & Insights

Wednesday, July 17

With the Debt Ceiling, Congress and Trump Play with Fire Again

Michael Hiltzik, LAT

Burden of Government Debt and James Buchanan's Corrective

Don Boudreaux, AIER

'20 Democrats Have All the Wrong Budget Ideas

Adam Brandon, Washington Examiner

Japan Discredits 'Demographic Doom' Narrative

Elisabeth Dellinger & Todd Bliman, FI

Trump Policies, Not His Heckling, May Force Fed to Cut Rates

Jeanna Smialek, NYT

Wondering If Mr. Greenspan Would Prefer Blinder or Shelton

Editorial, New York Sun

Europe Has Tried to Bend the Rules of Economics, and Failed

Steve Forbes, Forbes

Why a Trade Deal With China Is Only Part of a Bigger Solution

Kevin Kearns, The Hill

Trump Continues to Deliver on "Buy American, Hire American"

Peter Navarro, Fox

It's Time to Accept That Free Market Doesn't Work for Healthcare

David Steil, USAT

How Frank Abagnale Can Help You Avoid "Romance Scam"

Benjamin Reeves, Worth

How Congress Can Boost Transparency at Credit Union Blobs

Thomas Aiello, RCM

Taking Dispassionate Look at Late John Neff's Brilliance

Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

How Jeffrey Epstein Lost $80M In Hedge-Fund Bet Gone Bad

Michelle Celarier, NYM

Thursday, July 18

Is the Four-Day-Workweek the Next Big Thing In Employment?

Paul Davidson, USAT

If You Want to Know Why Mitt Romney Is Sen. Romney

John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

Trump's Tax Cuts Boosted Big Bank Earnings by Billions

Emily Flitter, New York Times

The Very Dangerous Cult of Income Equality

Brandon Crocker, The American Spectator

Good Econ. News Is So Awkward for Dem. Candidates

Andy Puzder, Washington Post

Trump's 'Buy/Hire American' Policies Undermine U.S. Vitality

Allan Golombek, RCM

How Governor Cuomo Is Cooking New York's Books

E.J. McMahon, New York Post

Using Investor Funds to Promote Man-Made Warming Theory

Benjamin Zycher, RCM

3 Managers May Soon Control Half of Corporate Voting Power

Andrea Riquier, MW

How to Invest In the S&P 500 With Index at All-Time Highs

Lou Carlozo, U.S. News

The Hidden Debt Homeowners Are Theoretically Buying

Nicole Gelinas, Governing

Judy Shelton and the Ongoing Battle Against Unstable Money

Nathan Lewis, Forbes

Meet The Man In Charge of Building Stephen Curry's Media Empire

Jarrel Harris, SI

The Financial Calamity That Is the U.S. Teaching Profession

Alia Wong, The Atlantic

Friday, July 19

Biggest Bull Market Ever, Yet Troubles Loom For Retirees

Paul Brandus, MarketWatch

The Very Small World of American Venture Capital

Avi Asher-Schapiro, New Republic

Trade Deal w/Mexico & Canada Would Bring Great Benefits

Rep. Mark Meadows, Fox

Trump's Oversized Tax Cuts Make Him the Deficit Man

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Expansion Is In Bottom Of 9th. Are We Headed For Extra Innings?

Doug Duncan, Hill

We Need to Fight Governments That 'Fight' Recessions

Christopher Baecker, RCM

Bitcoin: IRS Takes On The Crooks - And Also The Good Guys

William Baldwin, Forbes

They're All Symptoms of the Same Dollar Disease

Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets

The Stock of Men Rises When They Trade in Young Women

Rhonda Garelick, NYM

What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account For

Saul Zimet, FEE

Unemployment, Underemployment, & the Jobless Rate

Veronique de Rugy, Spectator

What Amazon.com Thinks Your Browser Data Is Worth

Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic

How Amazon Built Largest Marketplace In The United States

Mike Ghaffary, Forbes

To Thrive In Tomorrow's Working World, Embrace Learning

Ron Painter, The Examiner

Saturday, July 20

On Anniversary Of the Moon Landing, Apollo 11 By the Numbers

Mark Mills, Forbes

Fact-Checking Trump's Tweets About Too-High Interest Rates

Jeanna Smialek, NYT

If a Fed Rate Cut Is Foregone Conclusion, Just How Much?

Pat O'Hare, Briefing.com

Musings On Collection of Financial News Oddities

Elisabeth Dellinger & Todd Bliman, FI

Netflix Might Be Facing Moment of Truth About Its Business Model

From Baby Boomers to GenX: America's Retirement Crisis

Kailey Fralick, Motley Fool

Socialism Fails In Practice b/c It's Awful In Theory

Robert Lawson, American Thinker

We're Having Wrong Debate About a $15 Minimum Wage

Bryce Covert, New Republic

Support for $15 Wage Plummets When Its Economics Explained

Jon Miltimore, FEE

An Interview With Nick Foles About Investing, Restaurants

Steven Kutz, MarketWatch

Debt Ceiling Has Morphed From Convenience to a Controversy

Douglas Brook, Hill

Deficits Don't Matter. Spending Is the Problem Int w/John Tamny

Blake Burman, Fox