RealClearMarkets February 17, 2026 Archives

RealClearMarkets AM Update

Dow 50,000, We Hardly Knew Ye. Case For a Market Peak

Randall Forsyth Barron's

A Case for Early Social Security Invested In Gold

Matthew Pompeo RealClearMarkets

Thematic Investing Is Fun, But Is It Good for Investors?

Michael Cannivet Forbes

Buying Stocks They All Admire: Recipe for Bad Returns

Mark Hulbert Marketwatch

Rising Inequality Is Great. Its Downside Is Bigger Government

John Tamny RCM

The Quiet Architect of Trump’s Global Trade War

Ana Swanson The New York Times

How Trump Is Righting the Economic Ship After Biden

E. J. Antoni New York Post

The Real Story of the "Growing" Trump Economy? Old People

Philip Bump MS NOW

AI Market Panic Is Telling, Though Not In the Way You Think

Market Minder Fisher

Bitcoin's Plunge Should Finally End the "Digital Gold" Hype

Nicholas Sargen The Hill

How Much Longer Before California Falls Into the Ocean?

Editorial Issues & Insights

Corporate America Has Decided That DEI Needs to Die

Anson Frericks Fox News

Washington Is What Harms Housing

Edward Pinto & Tobias Peter RealClearMarketsrkets

Los Angeles's “Mansion Tax” Hasn’t Worked As Intended

Shawn Regan City Journal

RealClearMarkets PM Update

Trump EPA Revolution To Make CA More Affordable

Jon Fleischman California Post

Libertarians Say They Warned Us About Trump. Not Really

Anthony Fisher MS NOW

Trump Right to Worry About Rates, But There's a Price to Pay

Carol Roth Fox News

Can USD Remain World's Currency?

Peter Fenwick Foundation for Economic Education

Breathless In Seattle, As the Exodus Picks Up

Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity

How Boston’s Mayor Makes the Wrong Call on Rent Control

Eric Kober City Journal

What Chief Executive Officers Are Worried About

Jordyn Holman The New York Times

RealClearMarkets Research Reports

January CPI: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Justin Weidner Deutsche Bank Group

Slower In-Migration Exposes Weaker Underlying Trend

Richard Moody Realclear

Waiting for the AI J-Curve

Torsten Slok Apollo Academy

RealClearMarkets Off The Street

The Trucking Company Karaoke Night Massacre

George Steer FT Alphaville

The Cost Of Trump's Tariffs

John Rapley UnHerd

An Update On The AI Jobs Non-Apocalypse

James Pethokoukis AEIdeas

The Zero-Sum Trap: How Gambling Drains Wallets

Peter Jacobsen Daily Economy

Economic Data Can Be Both Worse and Good

Sam Ro TKer by Sam Ro

Why Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' Still Resonates in 2025

William Barker Quillette

Spurious Correlations: Super Bowl In The Year of Horse

Ryan Detrick Carson Group