RealClearMarkets December 10, 2025 Archives

RealClearMarkets AM Update

We Can't Be Talked Into Feeling Great About Econ

Zachary Karabell The Edgy Optimist

Trump Is Cleaning Up Biden's Affordability Disaster

Larry Kudlow RealClearPolitics

On Affordability, Pres Trump Goes All In On Alternate Reality

Steve Benen MSNBC

Good 2025 Equity Returns Signal Risk for Retirees In '26

Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's

Lest We Forget, Blockbuster Twice Passed on Netlix

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

How AI Can Address the Affordability Challenge

Kevin Frazier & Adam Thierer The Hill

The Peterson Fdn.'s Remarkably Uninformed Debt Proposal

Bruce Thompson RCM

U.S. Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You

David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics

The American Tort System Is Corrupt & Corrupting

Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty

Why the AI Excitement Is Unlike the Internet Boom

David Streitfeld New York Times

LeBron Shows Why Aging Employees Belong In U.S. Workforce

Gary Officer NYP

The Bank Secrecy Act Very Much Needs Modern Fix

Lillian Kriese RealClearMarkets

Rare Split At the Fed — And Why It Makes Sense

Matthew Schaffer The Daily Economy

Stop Recycling Plastic: It's Very Hazardous To Our Health

Editorial Issues & Insights

RealClearMarkets PM Update

$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?

Zack Cooper NYT

3 Contrarian Investment Ideas for 2026

Dan Lefkovitz Morningstar

Is It a Bubble? Has AI Enthusiasm Become Irrational?

Howard Marks Oaktree Capital

The New Information Wars & The Temptation of Censorship

John Aziz Quillette

The Free Market Is Connecting Rural America, Not Gov't

Ed Tarnowski Reason

What Happened to NFTs? Are The Apes Still Bored?

Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture

RealClearMarkets Research Reports

Two AI Stories: Real Gains, Balance Sheet Pressure

Adam W. Sandback CFA Institute

Evaluating The Strategy & Costs of Drug Boat Strikes

Elaine McCusker AEIdeas

RealClearMarkets Off The Street

We Need To Talk About What's Gone Wrong With Men

Mischa Frankl-Duval FTAV

States Are Raking In Billions From The Casino On Your Phone

Ben Blatt NY Times

Part 3: The Pursuit of Happiness

Michael W. Green Yes I Give A Fig

U.S. Farmers Aren’t Out of the Woods Yet

Christina Lu Foreign Policy

Tariff Revenue Used To Bail Out Farmers Harmed By Tariffs

Eric Boehm Reason

Sequence of Returns: The Biggest Risk for New Retirees

Amy C. Arnott Morningstar

The China Shock Revisited Again. It's Still A Big Positive

James Pethokoukis AEI