RealClearMarkets June 18, 2026 Archives

RealClearMarkets AM Update

Social Security Trust Fund: Politics & Practicalities

Market Minder Fisher Investments

Most Important Aspect of Scott Bessent's Talk Wasn't Tariffs

John Burtka The Hill

With Iran, Trump Has a $300 Billion Problem On His Hands

Steve Benen MS NOW

The Real Economic Damage From Iran Conflict Is Far From Over

Ashley Titus RCM

Americans: Biggest Barrier to Trump Reindustrialization

Chris Johnson Fox News

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Wealth Launches A Trillion Tax Lies

Editorial Issues & Insights

The Obnoxious Conceit of "Stablecoin" Cheerleaders

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

America Didn't Give Musk a Trillion. He Earned Every Penny

Ted Jenkin Fox News

Clinging To a Myth That Is Making Our Energy More Expensive

David Urban RCM

We Liked Remote Work. Then We Saw Data

Emma Harrington & Natalia Emmanuel NYT

The Best Performing Stocks So Far In 2026

Wayne Duggan U.S. News & World Report

A Question Democratic Socialists Never Seem to Ask

Tom Wilson RealClearMarkets

Zero Sum? The Big Cost of Big City Spending

Jeremy Portnoy RealClearInvestigations

Halt Terror-Driven Gold Rush In Venezuela

Josh Birenbaum & Susan Soh New York Post

RealClearMarkets PM Update

Kevin Warsh's Promising Start As Fed Chair

Desmond Lachman AEIdeas

The Fed Has Been Honest...and Stupid

Todd G. Buchholz Project Syndicate

The Iran War Permanently Altered the Global Economy

Patricia Cohen NY Times

The Degrowth Movement Is A War On the Poor

Veronique de Rugy Reason

America Doesn't Need a New East India Company

Jon Miltimore The Daily Economy

The AI Panic Is Producing Some Terrible Tax Ideas

Adam N. Michel Cato @ Liberty

RealClearMarkets Research Reports

Retail Sales: More Than High Prices Behind Growth

Richard Moody Regions Bank

A Super El-Nino Threatens Waves Of Commodity Inflation

David Rees Schroders

RealClearMarkets Off The Street

Iran is Trump's Katrina

Noah Smith Noahpinion

The Many Costs of Investing

Shane Denton Carson Group

Certainty Is Just Ignorance With Good PR

Anthony Isola A Teachable Moment

A Rare AI Chip Value Play

Asa Fitch & Dan Gallagher Wall Street Journal

The Trump Tariff Math Still Doesn't Add Up

David Clement The Daily Economy

Tariffs Haven't Helped Whirlpool

Scott Lincicome & Chad Smitson Cato @ Liberty

The Insanity of The Affordability Discourse

Aaron Brown The Dispatch