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Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson examined the proposed legislation that would allow striking workers to draw unemployment benefits in Califo...

Mackinac Center released a new report which provides an in-depth look at the occupational licensing laws that impact nearly one million Michigan workers...

In the News

In The Standard Republican, the Thomas Jefferson Institute’s Steve Haner points out tax reductions under Youngkin have been significant...

In a Letter to the Editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Show-Me Institute’s David Stokes notes high inflation shouldn’t be an excuse to hamme...

Videos

Steve Moore: "This Isn't a Pretty Picture"

Why Global Supply Chains May Never Be the Same

Howard Marks on Investing Risk

"Paint or Get Off the Ladder" - Jeffrey Gundlach on CNBC

RealClearMarkets Tuesday

How News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch Outfoxed American Media

Rob LaFranco, Forbes

RSC Proposes Harsh Changes to Social Security

Alan Cohen, Center for Am. Progress

A Glide Path to Fed Nirvana That Really Makes Me Wonder

Joe Calhoun, Alhambra

You Might Be Rich For Now, But You May Look Around You

Rob Smith, Rob Is Right

Expand the Child Tax Credit To Grow Economy

Liz Tenety & Kate Tummarello, The Hill

There's No Near-Term 'Sugar High' From Government Spending

John Tamny, RCM

Why Republicans Still Wedded to Right Wing Econ

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

How Much Would $10,000 In Apple 20 Yrs Ago Be Worth?

Wayne Duggan, U.S. News

The Very Rich Are Often Bad Investors. Here's Why They Are

Nicole Goodkind, CNN

What Happened To Mark Zuckerberg's Next Big Thing?

James Clayton, BBC News

How Gavin Newsom Is Ruining Chances of Being Pres.

Steve Forbes, What's Ahead

How Outer Space Moves the Markets On Earth

Joanna Rozpedowski, RealClearMarkets

Progress Requires a Rejection of Credit Card Competition Act

Karen Kerrigan, RCM

Unmask Hidden Swipe Fees To Aid U.S. Consumers

Ed Mierzwinski, RealClearMarkets

PM Update

The Best Books for Beginners at Investment

Julie Pinkerton, U.S. News & World Report

Greece, Battered a Decade Ago, Is Now Booming

Liz Alderman, The New York Times

Fundamental Private Property Rights In the Balance

Tim Rosenberger, City Journal

Expiration Dates Can Actually Do More Harm Than Good

Brigid Kennedy, The Week

We're Past Point of No Return With Emissions

Sir David King & Sware Semesi, The Hill

Fossil Fuels Are Crucial Economic Input

David Brady, Foundation for Economic Education

Avoid Becoming One of These Six Retirement Statistics

Jessica Walrack, U.S. News

Saving for retirement is a long game that rewards the early birds. Read More

The Very Strange, Very Expensive Efforts By the Rich To 'De-Age'

Whizy Kim, Vox

"Young blood," starvation, fruit-only diets: How the rich are striving to "age in reverse" Read More

The Staggering Annual Cost In Time of Federal Regulations

Wayne Crews, Forbes

Federal paperwork reporting has resumed after a long hiatus. Red tape is still a thing, and appears poised to accelerate. Read More

New M&A Rules Being Written by Lawyers: That's a Problem

Clifford Winston, RCM

The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recently proposed new merger guidelines to block mergers that enable large companies... Read More

Is a Recession Near? A Conversation w/Peter Coy

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Even if the Fed does not try to create one to fight inflation, we might get one. Read More

Contra Experts, Falling Prices and Savings Are Bullish

John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

The original Ford Model T cost around $850, but within a few years the price had dropped all the way to $250. Was it deflation? Not at all.... Read More

Why Inflation Is Slowing, Feels So High for Many

Market Minder, Fisher Investments

The level of prices and inflation rate are two different things. Read More

Why the Fed's $100 Billion Losses Should Be Far Bigger Story

Paul Kupiec, The Hill

Oh maybe. Read More

"Net Neutrality": The Zombie Lie That Just Won't Die

Kirk Arner, RealClearMarkets

Comedian Bill Maher recently coined the phrase “zombie lie.” It refers to a popular idea or concept that, despite... Read More

The Proper Approach To Alternative Investments

Seth Levine, The Integrating Investor

Alternatives are not distinct assets deserving of portfolio allocation. They are styles and as optional for portfolios as taste is for... Read More

Congress Pushes Over Cliff Moms Driving Econ Recovery

Reshma Saujani, MSNBC

The federal emergency funds that revived the child-care industry are set to expire on Sept. 30. Unless Congress acts, moms – and their... Read More

Iger's DIS: Time Shares, Betting Lines, & Inoffensive Remakes

Scott Shepard, RCM

Join me, boys and girls, in surveying the wreckage of this once world-bestriding entertainment colossus. And then, unless you own lots and... Read More

Biden Strike Embrace:Unprecedented Error

Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner

The oldest president in the nation's history has just shattered another glass ceiling. Amid the worst inflationary crisis in 40 years, one... Read More

With Rent Control, We Need the Courage to Do the Right Thing

Walter Block, RCM

Rent control sounds like a good, humanitarian idea. Certainly, few if any tenants would quarrel with this policy. Nor would any person of... Read More

Laying Out Some of the Best Reasons To Not Own An EV

Editorial, Issues & Insights

Electric vehicles are more menace than manna. Read More

Even Bill Gates Backtracking 'Climate' Alarmism

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, New York Post

Has the air gone out of the “climate crisis” balloon? It’s starting to look like it. Some other causes du jour are looking limp lately,... Read More

Off The Street

The Wisdom of Larry Summers

Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion

Highlights of an interview with Larry Summers Read More

Why Luck Isn’t Real

Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data

On the role of chance in life and why believing in it doesn't benefit you. Read More

Alaska Energy vs. Woke Government

Kassie Andrews, Master Resource

“The actions of Alaska policy makers, led by the governor, are eradicating the free-market principles in our state." Read More

All In: Elon Musk And The Infinite Rebuy

Dave Karpf, The Future, Now and Then

Walter Isaacson tried to write a "Great Man" biography of the rockets-and-cars genius. That's not an effective way to understand Elon Musk. Read More

Most Important Chart of 2023

J.C. Parets, All Star Charts

This has to be it right? How is this one not the world’s most important chart? With the US 10-year Yield hitting the highest levels in 15... Read More

Why The US Is At Risk Of Losing Its Last Triple A Rating

Felix Salmon, Axios

Most triple-A countries — think Germany or Canada — carefully plan out their fiscal trajectory over the next five to 10 years.... Read More

Who's Afraid Of The Treasury Basis Trade?

Robin Wigglesworth, FT Alphaville

Almost everyone except Goldman Sachs, it seems Read More

Research Reports

Everything In Moderation

Seamus Sullivan, Smead Capital Management

The Pullback Extends

Parag Thatte, Deutsche Bank Group

The Last Full Week of Econ. Data Releases For a While

Richard Moody, Regions Bank

Assessing the Damage of the Latest Pullback

Adam Turnquist, LPL Financial Research

Friday, September 22, 2023 Read More

What You Need to Know For the Week Ahead

Brett Ryan, Deutsche Bank Group

FOMC Surprised No One Yesterday

Richard Moody, Regions Bank

Residential: Don't Blame Slow Starts On Rates

Richard Moody, Regions Bank

Jobs and the Economy: Federalism in Action

Essential Reading

Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson examined the proposed legislation that would allow striking workers to draw unemployment benefits in Califo...

Mackinac Center released a new report which provides an in-depth look at the occupational licensing laws that impact nearly one million Michigan workers...

In the News

In The Standard Republican, the Thomas Jefferson Institute’s Steve Haner points out tax reductions under Youngkin have been significant...

In a Letter to the Editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Show-Me Institute’s David Stokes notes high inflation shouldn’t be an excuse to hamme...