RealClearMarkets Week of December 1, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 1
The Courage to Do Nothing Is an Essential Skill for Investors
Steven Sears Barron's
Social Security Disability Needs New Data, Not New Policies
David Weaver RCM
Asking Seniors: Can You Retire On Social Security Alone?
Daniel de Visé USA Today
Donald Trump Has Blocked a Big IRS Grab For Power
Tudor Dixon RealClearMarkets
Cryptos Saw Trump As their Savior. Reality Set In
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
How Pres. Trump Can Fix What Ms. Pelosi Broke On Trade
Andrei Iancu Fox News
Apple’s iPhone Eviscerates Federal Reserve’s Phillips Curve
John Tamny Forbes
AMZN Spends Billions to Win Christmas. Stock Looks Cheap
Jack Hough Barron's
Needless Barrier Between Patients & High-Quality Care
Justin Leventhal RealClear
Glimmer of Hope About Artificial Intelligence & Joblessness
Adam Clark Estes Vox
AI Mania Talk Premature at Best, Wrong at Worst
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Striking at Legal and Conceptual Core of 'Woke AI'
Stefan Padfield RealClearMarkets
They All Talk Affordability & They All Make Same Mistake
Heidi Shierholz MS NOW
Mamdani Can Save NYC Public Housing w/the Private Sector
Howard Husock NYP


Tuesday, December 2
The Greatest Investing Tip I Took From Charlie Munger
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
Cybertruck, Tesla's 'Best Ever' Product, Has Been a Flop
William Gavin Marketwatch
California: The Answer to Alleged Federal Debt Riddle
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The Cost of Trump's Bank Deregulation Could Be Catastrophic
Julie Siegel MSNBC
RCM/TIPP Econ. Optimism Index Brightens in December
Raghavan Mayur RealClear
DOGE Is Dead — Long Live Washington Boondoggles!
James Bovard New York Post
Trump Is Right To Expand On Immigrant Investor Program
Stephen Moore The Hill
Capitalism: Moral Force
Timothy Nash Gabriel Benzecry Bob Thomas Thomas Rastin RCM
Markets Roiled By Data-Center Snafu in Chicago Suburb
Doherty et al. Fortune
Extraordinary Results On a Rather Erratic Path
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
Energy Affordability Has Become Key Issue of '20s
William Murray RealClearEnergy
Solution to the Housing Affordability Problem? Marriage
Howard Husock Fox News
Chevron Is Gone, But Fight Against Overregulation Continues
Curtis Hill RealClear
It's Baffling That Seattle & NYC Chose Socialist Mayors
Ingrid Jacques USA Today
Congress's Next Kids' Online Safety Faces Same Problems
David McGarry RealClear


Wednesday, December 3
ACA Killed Insurance Companies, Threatens Recovery
Carl Schramm New York Post
GOP's War on Property Taxes Will Lose It the Suburbs
Aaron Renn New York Times
We Can Have the Coast Guard or Tariffs, Not Both
Casey Carlisle RealClearMarkets
I Was Wrong About Google, and That's Why I'm Bullish
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
A Spot-On Indicator Signaling the End of the Bull Market
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Is AI Becoming the Next "Too Big to Fail" Industry?
Mark Keenan American Thinker
Is Artificial Intelligence the Latest Internet Mania? Let's Hope!
John Tamny RCM
Who Will Be Trump's Choice for Federal Reserve Chairman?
Joel Mathis The Week
Socialism Is Popular, but Government Is the Problem
Rep Tom McClintock Examiner
Do Not Bail Out Another Unused City of Chicago Creation
Judge Glock City Journal
Don't Let Artificial Intelligence 'Workslop' Drag Your Co. Down
Gleb Tsipursky Hill
Trump Promised Relief, Americans Got Higher Bills
Aaron Wood & Abigail Hall RCM
Meaning of 50-Year Mortgage Debate
Julia Cartwright Am. Inst. for Economic Research
A Case for a New Floating Rate Treasury Note
Darrell Duffie & Donald Wilson Brookings


Thursday, December 4
Did the Hideous Lockdowns Kill More Than C-19?
Peter Gotzche Brownstone Institute
Robert A.M. Stern Designed NYC Like 1930s Movie
Paul Goldberger New York Times
Pres. Trump Mimics Joe Biden's Approach to Rail Safety
Editorial Washington Post
Young Americans Appallingly Dream of Socialist Future
Editorial Issues & Insights
Antitrust Ankle Biters Naively Attack, Businesses Evolve
John Tamny RealClear
U.S. Manufacturing Keeps Shrinking, Contra Trump Claims
Steve Benen MS NOW
Consumers Love Pres. Trump's Economy
Christopher Tremoglie Washington Examiner
Trusting Tractor-Driving Good Ole' Boys More Than Harvard Profs
Rob Smith RC
High Earners Losing a Tax Break on Retirement Savings
Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's
Big Oil Companies Should Pay For Their Own Pollution
David Bookbinder The Hill
We're Unhappy With the Economy, It's No Mystery Why
Jeffrey Bartash Marketwatch
As Warming Scare Dissipates, Rationality Returns to Australia
Vijay Jayaraj RCM
Mayor Mamdani Unleashes the Wrath of Lina Khan
Charles Sauer RealClearMarkets
What Uber & AirBnB Really Sell
Michael Munger American Institute for Economic Research


Friday, December 5
How Do Your Retirement Savings Compare by Age?
Reuben Gregg Brewer MotleyFool
Texas Is Trying to Become America's Next Financial Hub
Justin Klawans The Week
Trump Makes Another Socialist "Investment" In a U.S. Corp
Ja'han Jones MS NOW
Delayed Data Points Hint at U.S. Economic Health
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Why Free Buses Won’t Work for New York
Shawn Regan & Matthew Kahn City Journal
Jensen Huang Will Do For Affordability What Mamdani Can't
John Tamny RealClear
Green-Energy Insanity Drives NYC's Affordability Problems
Editorial New York Post
Stop a Government Giveaway to Big Tech Before It's Too Late
Mike Davis Fox News
AI: Death of Macroeconomics As We Knew It
Sebastien Laye Washington Examiner
Moment for Gold, and Alt. Bullion Investments Has Arrived
Luciano Duque RCM
About Those Sky-High BTC Prices?
David Yaffe-Bellany & Kailyn Rhone New York Times
DJT Gave Tech Bros Everything. Why Are They Crashing Out?
Nitish Pahwa Slate
Tax Cut: Right Way To Rebate Tariff Revenue
Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity
By Gutting CAFE, Trump Can Make Autos Beautiful Again
Editorial Issues & Insights
Saturday, December 6
There is No Substitute for Thinking
Nick Maggiulli Of Dollars And Data
Test Scores Will Continue to Decline. It's Very Bullish
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
How Big Tech's Algorithms Are The New Soviet Gosplan
Yanis Varoufakis UnHerd
Trillion-Dollar Club: Are The Mega-Cap Stocks Still Buys?
Frank Lee Morningstar
Water: Critical Infrastructure of Market Economies
Roheen Berry RealClearMarkets
Why It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory In The US
Peter S. Goodman New York Times
Ozempic Is A Miracle Drug But It's Busting State Budgets
Kelly Hooper Politico
Beware The Unwinding Of The Yen Carry Trade
Desmond Lachman AEIdeas
The Surprise Winners From The AI Boom
Jack Newsham Business Insider
Is OpenAI The MySpace Of The AI Boom?
Victor Tangermann Futurism
What America Can Learn From Japan About Housing
Andrew Heaton Reason
We’re Stuck With Health Insurance—But We Can Improve It
Chris Pope City Journal
Monday, December 8
Michael Dell Teaches Wise, Anti-Socialist Lesson
Hugo Gurdon Washington Examiner
Get Your Santa Rally Caps On, Then Ready For a Comedown
Avi Salzman Barron's
How the Best Investors Protect Their Wealth From Manias
Darius Dale Marketwatch
Strategy: Wall Street's Fav Stock, Biggest Error
Jed Graham Investor's Business Daily
Steve Rattner Fact-Checks Trump on Inflation, Affordability
Allison Detzel MSNBC
The Federal Reserve System Returns To Profitability
Paul Kupiec RealClearMarkets
Why Is Zohran Mamdani Ridiculed, Kevin Hassett Revered?
John Tamny Forbes
About That Retracted, Rather Alarmist Climate "Report"…
Editorial Issues & Insights
Federal Reserve's Policy Framework Is About to Be Shifted
Nicholas Sargen The Hill
John Lott Is Brilliant on Guns, Not So Much on Tariffs
Walter Block RealClearMarkets
They Can't Define the "AI Slop" That They Lament
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
How Red Tape Hamstrings Would-Be ‘Reshoring’
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Everybody in Hollywood Secretly Hates Netflix. Now What?
Sharon Waxman NYT
With Warner Bros., Don't Count Out the Ellisons Yet
Charles Gasparino New York Post


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