RealClearMarkets Week of December 15, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 15
The IRS Is In Real Trouble. Here's How Service Can Survive
Kyrsten Sinema The Hill
The Trump Tariff Case Is Not As Simple As Assumed
John Di Leo American Thinker
Call Me a Heretic or Judas, I Don't Buy the Fed Religion
Rob Smith RealClearMarkets
Herculean Power Of Compounding Runs Roughshod Over Fed
John Tamny Forbes
Can the Fed Do What Economists Think It Can Do?
Alexander Salter RealClearMarkets
The Longevity Economy Booms As People Live Longer
Justin Klawans The Week
American Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
Michael Hirschorn The New York Times
How the Stock Market's Big Rally Can Continue Into 2026
Paul La Monica Barron's
Private Credit Is Poised For Disruption by Blockchain
Cole Snell RealClearMarkets
The Biggest Risk To Artificial Intelligence Bull Market
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
Reduce Taxes That Raise Cost of Owning a Home
Barry Poulson RealClearMarkets
Lefties Want More To Cure the Housing Probs They Caused
Editorial New York Post
Why Elon Musk's DOGE Regrets Just Add Insult To Injury
Matt Johnson MS NOW
Paramount-Warner Shows Hostile Takeover's Back
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times


Tuesday, December 16
Some Who Know Kevin Hassett Worry About Him at the Fed
Matt Peterson Barron's
Why Kevin Warsh Is Newly Ascendant In the Fed Fight
Victor Reklaitis Marketwatch
AI Won't End Marketing, It Will Elevate It To Its Full Potential
Mark Penn RealClear
Declining Tariff Revenue Creates Headache For White House
Steve Benen MSNBC
Ray Dalio's Debt Alarmism Is Belied by His Genius As An Investor
John Tamny RC
A Growing, Global Backlash Against Global Warming
Bjorn Lomborg New York Post
Cold, Green Europe: When Ideology Trumps Physics
Vijay Jayaraj RealClearMarkets
Social Security Disability Benefits Are at a Crossroads
Mark Miller New York Times
A Social Security Rule That Could Cost You Thousands
Christy Bieber Motley Fool
This Is Why You Make Six Figures, Still Live Check to Check
Ted Jenkin Fox News
Left Wing 'Affordability' Plans Invariably Drive Up Costs
Dave Ball American Thinker
Deportations Are Proving a Disaster for GOP
Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity
Should Federal Government Break Up Big Tech? A Debate
Various RealClearPolitics
Why Shareholders Need a Women's Rights Audit
Stefan Padfield RealClearMarkets
CAFE Standards Failing Every Test of Social Welfare
Richard Epstein Civitas Institute


Wednesday, December 17
The Fed Is Buying Billions In T-Bills. Just Don't Call It QE
Randall Forsyth Barron's
Trump May Pick Least Important Fed Chair In Ages
Jason Furman New York Times
The Fed Cut Rates Again. So, What Else Is New?
Bryan Cutsinger The Daily Economy
California Is Broke, But It's Not Too Late For the Rest of Us
Ted Jenkin Fox News
Trump's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Are Putting America First
Sean Spicer The Hill
Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Netflix Buying Warner?
John Tamny RealClear
A Hard Investment Truth That Often Gets Swept Under Rug
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
What Dow Transports In the Lead Tells Us About Stocks
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Trump Risks Political Ruin w/His Own Inflation Trap
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
New York City Data Indicate Poverty Doesn't Cause Crime
Barry Latzer City Journal
European Governments Must Listen to Jamie Dimon & Bill Gates
J.T. Young RCM
No Matter the Spin, Tariffs Hurt American Jobs, Wallets
David Hebert Law & Liberty
Suing Software Will Not Add to Housing Supply
Danielle Zanzalari RealClearMarkets
A Case for Fiat Money as Cause of Birthrate Decline
Thomas Kolbe American Thinker
Why You Should Get Social Security @62
Maryalene LaPonsie U.S. News & World Report


Thursday, December 18
America Is Perilously Forgetting What Capitalism Is
Donald Bryson RealClearMarkets
Trump's Failure to Create Jobs: WH Flubs Meaning of 'Strong'
Steve Benen MSNBC
Ford Motor Co. Lost Tens of Billions On Electric Vehicles
Editorial Issues & Insights
Why Would An A+++ Economy Have So Much Bankruptcy?
Merrill Matthews The Hill
The Horrors of Memory Loss, the Possibility of Pharma Solutions
John Tamny RC
What the Long-Awaited Jobs Data Really Revealed
Market Minder Fisher Investments
SiriusXM Ties Turnaround Hopes To a Howard Stern Deal
Justin Klawans The Week
Hoping Lina Khan Doesn't Do to NYC What She Did to iRobot
Norm Singleton RCM
This Basic Question Looms Large Over the '26 Stock market
Steven Sears Barron's
What Trump's Crypto Embrace Has Unleashed
David Yaffe-Bellany & Eric Lipton NYT
Meta’s Antitrust Victory Brightens Social Media’s Future
Jon Decker Inside Sources
Best Performing Tech Stocks of Past Decade
Marc Guberti U.S. News & World Report
NYC's Debt to Will Not Deter Mamdani's Free Stuff Fantasy
Editorial New York Post
Washington Should Make Growth the Driver of Affordability
Bruce Thompson RCM
Supply-Siders Will Get Their Revenge With Dem Sweep
Paul Mueller Civitas Institute


Friday, December 19
Ukraine Is Demographic Story, Not One of Territory
Reuven Brenner RealClearMarkets
The Ten Most Brazen Lies From Trump's Prime Time Address
Steve Benen MSNBC
Wages Up, CPI Lower: X-Mas Miracle for Trump?
Tiana Lowe Doescher The Examiner
What Affordability Crisis? Trump Slashes Bidenflation
Editors Unleash Prosperity
Cash-Starved Wanted Marcus Welby, Not PT Barnum
Bob Maistros Issues & Insights
Trump Can Turn Tables On the Left With a Radical Tax Plan
John Tillman Fox News
Good Parenting Can't Be Legislated: OZ Will Find Out Hard Way
John Tamny RCM
China Is Feeling Strong, Senses an American Retreat
Li Yuan The New York Times
To Their Real Peril, Investors Get David & Goliath All Wrong
Chris Wood RiskHedge
Trump Pressures High Court On Pending Tariff Ruling
Don Wolfensberger The Hill
Europe's Error Shouldn't Become America's Drug Policy
Justin Leventhal RealClear
Small Business Wins In House With the Red Tape Act
Tim Tapp RealClearMarkets
Hard Work Built U.S. Get Government Out of Its Way
Jesse Ramos New York Post
How Cryptocurrency Is Presently Changing American Politics
Alex Kerr The Week
Saturday, December 20
When AI Comes To Town: Small Cities, Big Data Centers
Jon Keegan Sherwood
The American Mind Has Been 'Closed' for Decades...!
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The Lost Generation
Jacob Savage Compact
Is the Economy Improving Heading Into 2026?
Sarah Hansen Morningstar
The Making of a Techno-Nationalist Elite
Tanner Greer American Affairs Journal
Republican Socialism: State Capitalism With A Trump Logo
Eric Boehm Reason
Which Genius From History Would Have Been The Best Trader?
Toby Nangle FTAV
The United States Of Fraud
Emily Stewart Business Insider
Too Much Government Spoils the Broth
Richard Crampton Platt UnHerd
Europe Is Missing Its Moment
Douglas Rediker & Heidi Crebo-Rediker Foreign Affairs
Who Wants Venezuela's Oil Anyway? No One Right Now
Ben Cahill Barrons
Alaska's $44 Billion Bet On Natural Gas
Lois Parshley Grist
Monday, December 22
Do You Know Fastest Growing Energy Technology In History?
Stephen McBride RH
Historians Will Mock 'Money Supply,' Fed Funds, Fed Watching
John Tamny Forbes
Trump Taking Important Steps To Protect Am. Consumers
Brooke Rollins Fox News
Trump Statistical Claims Untethered from Reality
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Despite Strong Economy, Trump Tariffs Haven't Delivered
Nicholas Sargen The Hill
Trump Is Delivering, But Must Cease Promising the Moon
Editorial New York Post
Days of U.S. 'Exceptionalism' Fading: Louis-Vincent Gave Int
Mark Dittli The Market
Trump Ends ESG and DEI Privilege: What Comes Next
Jerry Bowyer Prospr Aligned
A Trump Order That Sets Accountability for U.S. Investors
Jeremy Tedesco RCM
Tax the Rich Like Me To Avoid Inevitable "Fiscal Cliff"
Mitt Romney New York Times
Netflix Acquisition of Warner Brothers Is Super, Man
Charles Sauer RealClearMarkets
Don’t Tell the Kids, but "Santa Rallies" Aren’t Real
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Mexico's Vape Ban Fails Public Health, Plus Law and Order
Jon Decker RealClear
Why It May Be Better If Your Children Inherit Early On
Philip van Doorn Marketwatch
AI's Promise As a Source for Better Mental Health
Duggan Flanakin RealClearMarkets


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