RealClearMarkets Week of February 6, 2012 Archives

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Monday, February 6
The Cruel End of Wall Street as They Knew It
Gabriel Sherman New York
Good Jobs Report, Bad Policy Implications
Paul Krugman New York Times
Another Unemployment Rate Tall Tale
Louis Woodhill RealClearMarkets
Why Does Low Unemployment Bother Paul Ryan?
John Nichols Nation
Why Can't Mainstream Media Connect Economic Dots?
Bill Frezza RCM
Tax the Rich, Help the Working Poor
Jeremy Grantham Financial Times
Expect China to Shape the Next Bretton Woods
Philip Coggan Bloomberg
American Airlines: Bankrupt Victim Of the Dollar
John Tamny Forbes
Blackberry Has Morphed Into 'Slackberry'
James Surowiecki New Yorker
IPO Market Euphoria, With Little Memory
Jeff Sommer New York Times
Will 2012 Be a Repeat of 2003 and 2009?
Michael Gayed MarketWatch
A List of Stocks for the Seekers of Non-Volatility
Michael Santoli Barron's
Fed Inflation Goal More Politics Than Policy
Evan Schnidman Bloomberg
In Global Economy, Crises Are Harder to Fix
Robert Samuelson Newsweek


Tuesday, February 7
A Tax Fairness Quiz for The President
Stephen Moore Wall Street Journal
Romney's Poverty Message Is Disturbing
Marc Thiessen Washington Post
Stop Feeling Sorry For the Middle Class
Scott Winship The New Republic
Shame On You, Obama, For Pandering On Trade
Jagdish Bhagwati FT
Right to Work Laws Won't Revive Manufacturing
Ron Klain Bloomberg
The Housing Bottom Is Finally Here
Bill McBride Calculated Risk Blog
Is Economic Glass Half Empty, or Half Full?
Irwin Kellner MarketWatch
The Haze Surrounding the Jobless Data
Alfred Tella RealClearMarkets
The Fed's Explicit Goal: Devalue the Dollar 33%
Charles Kadlec Forbes
Here's How to Play the Facebook IPO With Puts
Steven Sears Barron's
Facebook Is Not As Popular As We Think
A. Ross Sorkin New York Times
NASD 100 Says This Is NOT a Tech Bubble!
Paul La Monica CNNMoney
French Socialists' Latin Revolt Against Germany
Pritchard Telegraph
Why the U.S. Does Not Have the EU's Debt Problems
Peter Wallison RCM


Wednesday, February 8
Ignorance Will Yield More Capitalism Crises
Ken Rogoff Financial Times
The Costly Burden of Regulations
Wayne Crews Investor's Business Daily
It's Time to Automate Effective Economic Fixes
Peter Orszag Bloomberg
Obama Bets Big on the Business Cycle -- Again
Brian Domitrovic Forbes
Obama Must Keep Pushing Jobs
Katrina vanden Heuvel Washington Post
Outsourcing Jobs Isn't the Easy Road
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Time to Close the Carried Interest Loophole
Allan Sloan Washington Post
A Plausible First Step Toward Tax Reform
Alex Brill RealClearMarkets
Raising the Capital Gains Tax Rate Just Makes Sense
Eliot Spitzer Slate
A Mark Zuckerberg Tax Needed to Fix Flaws
David Miller New York Times
Having Wrecked the Banks, Feds Target Money Funds
John Tamny RCM
Volatility Can Be Best Explained In a Bar
Mark Buchanan Bloomberg
What You Must Know About the Facebook IPO
Michael Brush MSN Money
Let the Investor Beware Certain Shady Stocks
Jim Cramer TheStreet
Overbought Market Due For Correction
Lawrence McMillan MarketWatch


Thursday, February 9
The Forgotten Man Of the Modern Tax Debate
Blake Hurst The American
Obamanomics: More Moderate than Clinton's
Ezra Klein Washington Post
Creating Wealth In Uncertain Times
Ziad Abdelnour RealClearMarkets
Benefits Turn Us Into a Nation of Moochers
Nita Ghei Washington Times
Don't Worry, America Isn't Going Broke
Anthony Mirhaydari MSN Money
A Housing Crisis Solution Could Be Nearing
Coy & Gopal BusinessWeek
The Limits of Monetary Policy Call for Sound Money
James Dorn Forbes
Clint Eastwood Gets Chrysler Story Backwards
Amity Shlaes Bloomberg
Facing Up To Anti-Fracking Hysteria
Kevin Williamson New York Post
Electric Car Hype Is Bad Karma for the Taxpayers
Louis Woodhill Forbes
To Predict Dodd-Frank, Look Back to Sarbanes-Oxley
Jesse Eisinger NYT
Santorum Emerges As a Factor
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets
Beware, The Insiders Are Selling Heavily
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
Venture Capital Must Not Get Drunk Again
John Gapper Financial Times


Friday, February 10
Yes, the Economy Really Is Recovering
Morgan Housel The Motley Fool
Shall We Say Farewell to the Free Market?
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
This $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Is Huge
Jim Cramer TheStreet
Obama's Blow to the Housing Market
Charlie Gasparino New York Post
Don't Be Fooled, the Obama Jobless Rate Is 11%
Peter Ferrara Forbes
No, People Are Not Leaving the Workforce
Floyd Norris New York Times
Economics: The 'Science' of Hubristic Hope
Jeff Snider RealClearMarkets
Desperation Drives Investors into Stocks
David Callaway MarketWatch
Euro Crisis Averted? Don't Believe It
Jeremy Warner Daily Telegraph
In Europe, Stagnation as a Way of Life
Alderman & Thomas NY Times
Libor Probe Lights Up Dark Corners
Gillian Tett Financial Times
Only the Really Dumb Bankers Get Caught
Jonathan Weil Bloomberg
If We Abolish the Fed, What Would Replace It?
Mark Koba CNBC
What Is the Best Kind of Gold Standard System?
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Saturday, February 11
We Are Not All That Far From The 1930s
Martin Taylor Financial Times
A Recovery With Business at the Forefront
Floyd Norris New York Times
With the Financial Crisis, Did Capitalism Fail?
Eustace Davie Forbes
The Fed's Zero Rate Distorts Economy
Jim Dorn Investor's Business Daily
King Dollar GOP? A Golden Dollar Spells Prosperity
Larry Kudlow RCM
Your Brain On a Hot Investment Streak
Jason Zweig Wall Street Journal
Stocks Look Like Last Year, Before a 6.5% Dive
Michael Santoli Barron's
A Money Market Alt. to Money Funds
Jack Hough Wall Street Journal
SEC, Insider Trading & Congress
Hilzenrath and Kindy Washington Post
Great Settlement for Banks, Politicians
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Destroying Vacant Homes Could Aid Cities
Jim Rokakis Washington Post
Fuzzy Eastwood Ads Aside, Chrysler Has Problems
Doron Levin Fortune
Policies to Cut Energy Use Are Badly Designed
Brian Barry Bloomberg
Building Keystone Won't Lead to Apocalypse
Joe Nocera New York Times
Sunday, February 12
How the Stimulus Fell Short on Jobs
Michael Grabell New York Times
Cheers and Jeers for Mortgage Deal
Christopher Matthews TIME
Hold the Applause on Mortgage Settlement
Gretchen Morgenson NYT
Mortgage Deal Mocks Responsible Homeowners
Liz Peek Fiscal Times
The World Is Running Out of Workers
Doug Saunders Globe and Mail
In Greece, Dreading Return of the Drachma
Joanna Kakissis TIME
The Plan Behind the Open-Plan Office
Gillian Tett Financial Times
Can the University Be an Entrepreneur Factory?
David Rohde Reuters
The Vatican Takes On Global Finance
Samuel Gregg Foreign Affairs
Industrial Revolution Created Modern Debt
Philip Coggan Reuters
Monday, February 13
Market Party On, Hangover Is Coming
Jonathon Trugman New York Post
Using Puts and Calls As a Path to Rising Returns
Steven Sears Barron's
Break Up the Banks? Here's An Alternative
Tyler Cowen New York Times
Swiss Response to U.S. Fiscal Imperialism
Dan Mitchell RealClearMarkets
The Real Reasons Rich Move Cash to Caymans
Brett Arends SmartMoney
Economic Fairness: President Obama's Cynical Tactic
Jim Powell Forbes
Regulations Create Jobs
Elizabeth Dwoskin & Mark Drajem BusinessWeek
U.S. Recovery, Though a Cold and Grey One
Edward Luce Financial Times
Orwellian Doublespeak Dominates U.S. Economic Policy
Bill Frezza RCM
Facebook's Float and the Big IPO Letdown
Vivek Wadhwa Washington Post
Silicon Valley's oDesk Mocks "Death of Birth" Fears
John Tamny Forbes
Carlyle IPO Exposes a Wall Street Legal Sham
William Cohan Bloomberg
On the Dole: One Fifth Of All Americans
William Beach New York Post
Why Federal Spending's Difficult to Control
Robert Samuelson Newsweek


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