RealClearMarkets Week of April 16, 2012 Archives

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Monday, April 16
Housing Policy Is Retarding U.S. Recovery
Edward Luce Financial Times
Could the Fed Lose Money? Would It Matter?
Peter Coy BusinessWeek
TurboTax Crime Wave
Rodney Mock & Nancy Shurtz Wall Street Journal
The Politics of Economic Inequality
Nicholas Lemann The New Yorker
Economists Cannot Create Happiness
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
How Paul Krugman Would Ru(i)n Steve Jobs' Apple
Paul Gregory Forbes
The Best Congress That Money Can Buy?
Paul Hsieh RealClearMarkets
Competition Is Good For Governments, Too
Gregory Mankiw NY Times
Why Voters Should Abolish Mega Millions Lottery
John Tamny Forbes
2 Clear Cases of Wild Tech Valuations
Jonathon Trugman New York Post
Smart-Money Skepticism Is Pushing Up Stocks
Steven Sears Barron's
A Springtime Swoon For the Stock Market
Terry Keenan New York Post
Corzine Steals Sans Charges, Whale Watcher Faces Jail
Bill Frezza RCM
Muslims On Wall Street, Bridging Two Traditions
Kevin Roose NY Times


Tuesday, April 17
Buffett Rule: It's Perceptions of Fairness, Not Policy
Isabel Sawhill RCM
The Cruel Unfairness Wrought By Tax Fairness
Charles Kadlec Forbes
A Rich Guy's Case for Much Higher Taxes
Ezra Klein Washington Post
Buffett Rule's Deceitful Consequences
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Buffett Rule: Right Goal, Wrong Tool
Leonard Burman New York Times
Mitt Romney's Etch-a-Sketch Draws a Losing Picture
John Tamny RCM
We've Entered a New Era of Very Bad Money
Jim Jubak MSN Money
Europe Distracted: Endless Firewall Talk
Robert Zoellick Financial Times
What Spain's Financial Crisis Teaches Conservatives
Peter Morici FOX
How Crafty Banks Foil Dodd-Frank
Cooley and Schoenholtz Bloomberg
Who's Who In the Goldman Sachs Power Struggle?
Katie Benner Fortune
Have Corporate Profit Expectations Sunk Too Low?
Kopin Tan Barron's
Why Corporate Profit Margins Will Remain Strong
Neel Kashkari Pimco
It's Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth
Carrie Lukas Capital Flows
California's Soak-the-Rich Tax Will Fail
Arthur Laffer Investor's Business


Wednesday, April 18
The Strange Inequality Obsession
Holman Jenkins Wall Street Journal
A 1% Consensus We Can't Afford
Katrina vanden Heuvel Washington Post
99% Movement Scorns Individual Creativity
Maura Pennington Forbes
Why Buffett Revealed His Prostate Cancer
Diane Brady BusinessWeek
What the Top Financial Advisors Recommend
Suzanne McGee Barron's
The Leading Indicators of Stock Market Top
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
Obama Goes Toe-to-Toe with Oil Speculators
Merrill Goozner Fiscal Times
Don't Blame Speculators for High Oil Prices
Todd Harrison MarketWatch
The Shameful BP Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Editorial New York Times
Are the U.S. and China Trading Places?
Barry Eichengreen MarketWatch
Plot Thickens In Tax Reform Theater
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Taking On the Notion of Too Big To Fail
Phillip Swagel RealClearMarkets
Who Is Paul Krugman Kidding? Inflation Is Abhorrent
Bill Flax Forbes
The Fed Would Benefit from a Lot More Sunlight
William Greider Nation


Thursday, April 19
Why Student Loan Debt Could Smother Growth
Jonathan Laing Barron's
Gen O Discovers Washington's Debt Bomb
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RCM
The U.S. Barrels Toward a Fiscal Cliff
Anthony Mirhaydari MSN Money
Representation Sans Taxation, Yet No Outrage?
Richard Salsman Forbes
Will the U.S. Avoid a 2012 Recession? Postscript
Gary Shilling Bloomberg
The 3 Ways "Old Money" Maintains Its Riches
James Rickards U.S. News
Sorry, Government Doesn't Create Jobs
John Stossel Washington Times
Stocks Are Cheap? Basic Logic Says Otherwise
Brett Arends SmartMoney
A Day In the Life Of An Investment Banker
Melanie Danko BusinessWeek
Dodd-Frank's OFR: An Affront to Privacy
Hester Peirce RealClearMarkets
SEC Beware, Money Funds a Stability Risk
Squam Lake Group Bloomberg
How Banks Easily Evade the Volcker Rule
Jesse Eisinger New York Times
Is China Blowing a Transportation Bubble?
Sam Staley RealClearMarkets
Obama Takes Us Back to '36 In 2012
Daniel Henninger Wall Street Journal
Prez Fights Straw Man In Oil Speculator War?
Jordan Weissman Atlantic


Friday, April 20
Fears Rise of Faltering Recovery in Spring
Annie Lowrey New York Times
Where Have All of the Women's Jobs Gone?
Tami Luhby CNNMoney
Housing Bubble Erased, Gov't Now in the Way
Alex Pollock The American
Who's Making a Bet on Housing Now?
Amanda Kish The Motley Fool
Don't Blame China's Yuan for Trade Deficit
Yukon Huang Bloomberg
The Big Stakes of China's Epic Power Stuggle
Howard Gold MarketWatch
Crackdown on 'Speculators' Won't Work
Matthew Philips BusinessWeek
Team Obama's Tax Predators Are on the Prowl
Mark Hendrickson Forbes
Bernanke's Flexibility Is Constraint For You and Me
Jeffrey Snider RCM
Trans-Atlantic Political Paralysis Sinks Economies
Philip Stephens FT
How to Join in on the Crowd-Funding Craze
Chuck Jaffe MarketWatch
Delta and the Fallacy of Vertical Integration
Virginia Postrel Bloomberg
Needed: A Real Market For Health Insurance
Grace-Marie Turner RCM
DOJ's Apple Mugging Reveals Antitrust as Theft
Wendy Milling Forbes
Saturday, April 21
Soros: I'd Bet Against The Euro
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Telegraph
Politician's Magical Tax Reform Plans
Simon Johnson Project Syndicate
Unfairness Permeates The Tax System
James Stewart New York Times
Big Banks: Now Even More Too Big To Fail
David Lynch BusinessWeek
Taxpayer Bank Bailout Profit Is A Dream
Jonathan Weil Bloomberg
What If Cheap Oil Is Gone For Good?
Buttonwood The Economist
Is Oil Really Worth $100 A Barrel?
Myra Saefong MarketWatch
Five Rules To Survive A Market Crisis
Jim Jubak MSN Money
Microsoft Surge Proves The PC Isn't Dead
David Callaway MarketWatch
The Great California Middle Class Exodus
Allysia Finely Wall St. Journal
Feminism's Peculiar War On the Finances of Families
Bill Flax Forbes
Obama's Economic Programs Have Failed
Mort Zuckerman U.S. News
Obama Owns America's Economic Angst
Larry Kudlow RealClearMarkets
The Laughable Economic Fallacies Of Progressives
Peter Ferrara Forbes
Back To The Future: The DeLorean Returns
Claire Suddath BusinessWeek
Sunday, April 22
IMF Lets Eurozone Stay in Fantasy World
Liam Halligan Daily Telegraph
The Reason the Euro Isn't Worth Saving
Matthew O'Brien The Atlantic
The Lie That's Bankrupting the Country
Rob Tracinski RealClearMarkets
'Titanic Bias' and the Stories You're Missing
Morgan Housel Motley Fool
Celebrating Earth Day and the Latest Apocalypse?
Pat Michaels Forbes
Obama's Plan to Revive Industrial 'Rust Belt'
Andrew Leonard Salon
Can the U.S. Postal Service Be Saved?
Elizabeth Dwoskin BusinessWeek
America Loves to Hate Too-Big-to-Fail CEOs
Christopher Matthews TIME
The Long History of American Home Debt
Daniel Wadhwani Bloomberg
Rising Cost of Going (and Not Going) to College
Derek Thompson Atlantic
A Plea for Patents that Inspire Invention
James Dyson Financial Times
Oracle v. Google: Steve Jobs's Revenge
Therese Poletti MarketWatch
Argentina's Downward Spiral
Jude Webber & John Paul Rathbone FT
Colombia: Not Just Drugs and Hookers
Thomas Kostigen MarketWatch
The Hundred-Year War over Tax Rates
Linda Killian The Atlantic
Monday, April 23
No Walls Between Stanford and Silicon Valley
Ken Auletta New Yorker
Thiel: Dominating the Creative Monopoly
David Brooks New York Times
Wall Street Isn't Enough For NYC Anymore
Edward Glaeser City Journal
Main Street Still Shunning the Markets
Charles Gasparino New York Post
Your Grandma's Growth Stocks Are Leading
Michael Santoli Barron's
Stocks & Economy, Singing Different Tunes
Jeff Sommer New York Times
Clueless Central Bankers Are Completely Faking It
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Raise Capital Gains, Cut Income Taxes
Tom Campbell Los Angeles Times
A Tax Reform Plan We Could All Agree On
William Galston New Republic
Supply-Side's Critics Offer Only Trickle-Down Inflation
Bill Frezza RCM
Get Ready For The Third Industrial Revolution
Leaders The Economist
Is ABC's 'Castle' Right About Our Reliance On Debt?
John Tamny Forbes
The Argentime Way of Doing Business
Mary O'Grady Wall Street Journal
The Next, More Serious Euro Crisis Phase
Desmond Lachman American
IMF Encourages Europe's Suicide
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Telegraph
Will Spain Take Down the Global Economy?
Robert Samuelson Newsweek


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