RealClearMarkets Week of September 14, 2026 Archives

RealClearMarkets AM Update

Monday, September 14

Bessent’s Interventions Could Instigate a Downturn

Charles Gasparino New York Post

Quick Guide to Betting Against Scott Bessent

Stephen Kirchner Institutional Economics

They Spent Their Lives Saving, Now Retirees Afraid to Spend

Daniel de Visé USAT

The Brits Didn't Do During the Blitz What We Did During Covid

Rob Smith RealClear

Modern Monetary Theory: Failed Notion That's Old As Money

John Tamny Forbes

Socialists Are Sapping U.S. Cities: Money Is Running Out

Joel Kotkin Yahoo News

Prediction Markets Signal a Repricing of the Trump Coalition

Ryan Ricci Hedgeye

Post 9/11, the Markets Fought Back Amid Grieving

Market Minder Fisher Investments

Tariffs Keep Making U.S. Cost More Without Making It Stronger

Sheryl Du RCM

For Jensen Huang, I'll Break My Magazine Cover Rule

Stephen McBride RiskHedge

Washington Needs a 'Washington Consensus'

Benedict Clements & Steve Kamin RCM

Why Sam Bankman-Fried Case Should Spook AI Elite

Jason Willick Washington Post

AI "Pauses" Will Regulate the U.S. Into Second Place

Michael Aaron Cody RealClear

Why Tech Heavies Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse

Michelle Goldberg New York Times

The So-Called "AI Crisis" Recalls "Warming" Crises of Old

Editorial Issues & Insights

Tuesday, September 15

A Rate Hike Would Validate What's Already Priced

Joe Calhoun Alhambra Investments

The Fed May Be On the Verge of a Serious Rate Mistake

Greg Robb Marketwatch

Making Bullish Case For a Rate Hike From Federal Reserve

Alex Rosenberg Barron's

The Dem Senate Candidate Who Wisely Defends Oil

Robinson Meyer New York Times

Holman Jenkins Reveals Real Crisis, & It's Not the National Debt

John Tamny RCM

Memo to Vance & GOP: Stop Failing to Outspend Left

David Harsanyi New York Post

JD Vance's Social Engineering Is Costly and Unprincipled

Jeffery Degner RealClear

Contra Trump, Companies That Maintained DEI Did Just Fine

Michael Hiltzik LAT

Republicans Need Reagan Vision of Freedom, Capitalism

Arthur Herman Fox News

Trump’s $5k Down Payment On the Entitlement State

Wayne Crews The Daily Wire

Left-Wing Media Feed Flock Abt. Trump, Food Prices

Terry O'Brien American Thinker

Why Capital Prefers a Power Plant To a Megawatt Saved

Sergey Kyunttsel RealClear

Missing the Mark on New York's Fiscal Crisis Recovery

Nicole Gelinas City Journal

Trucking Crackdown: Safety Rule or More Populist Politics

Jonathan Dever RCM

A Case For Single Men As Our Economic Peril

Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity