RealClearMarkets Week of December 2, 2013 Archives

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Monday, December 2
Why the Africa Aid of Bono, Gates & Clinton Fails
Paul Theroux Barron's
Pope Francis Takes On Unfettered Capitalism
John Nichols The Nation
We Are Self: The Great Baby Boom Bust
P.J. O'Rourke Wall Street Journal
Raise the Wages of the Workers Behind the Register
Paul Krugman NYT
The Democratic Party Is Now the Big Business Party
Jeff Dorfman RCM
The Republicans Should Be Thanking 'O' Profusely
John Tamny Forbes
We Have a Failure of Econ Vocabulary
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
The End of World War II Ended Great Depression
Peter Ferrara Forbes
5 Reasons Investors Should Not Fight the Fed
Peter Hodson National Post
Bull Market Showing No Signs of Death
A. Xydias & W. Kisling Bloomberg
When Markets Heat Up, Time to Be Cowardly
John Waggoner USA Today
Three Tax Savvy Ways to Donate Stock
Carolyn Geer Wall Street Journal
Online Tax Would Level Internet Start-Ups
Steve DelBianco USA Today
Obamacare's Placebo: Talk Of It Reduces Prices
James Surowiecki TNY
Door-to-Door for Obamacare Is a Hard Sell
Matt Labash Weekly Standard


Tuesday, December 3
My Top 10 Biggest Financial Peeves
Cliff Asness Financial Analysts Journal
Get Ready for Lies and Labor Dept. Statistics
John Crudele New York Post
Why Does the Economy Grow More Under Democrats?
David Wessel WSJ
Krugman Consigns to Hell Economy He Envisioned
Ralph Benko Forbes
Robert Bartley's 'Seven Fat Years': Best of Econ Books
John Tamny RCM
Amazon Delivers Some Pie In the Sky
David Streitfeld New York Times
Drones Could Buzz Billions Into U.S. Economy
Barr & Weise USA Today
Murder Vs. Marketing In 'The Hunger Games'
Peter Foster National Post
Who Cares Now, Healthcare.gov Has Already Failed
Matt Yglesias Slate
Economic Populism Is A Dead End for Dems
Jon Cowan & Jim Kessler WSJ
Parasite Class Destroys Wealth, Liberty
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Will Bitcoin Rise Amid Gold's Ongoing Decline?
Michael Kahn Barron's
Gold: Not A Barbarous Relic, A Spiritual Value
Harry Binswanger Forbes
Invest Like Buffett? Yes, If You're a Quant Fund
Matt Levine Bloomberg
Is the Market About To Get Some Bad News?
Avi Gilburt MarketWatch
As Stocks Continue Their Climb, Is Wall Street Too Giddy?
Various NYT


Wednesday, December 4
Coming Soon, A Global 'Wealth Tax'
Romain Hatchuel Wall Street Journal
What Pope Francis Got Right About Capitalism
Robert Scheer Nation
Sorry Pope Francis, But Capitalism Loves Poor People
Bill Frezza Forbes
Washington's In Major Denial Over The Budget Deficit
Ron Haskins RCM
A Sobering Truth About the U.S. Corporate Tax
Walter Galvin The Hill
GOP Must Step Up & Lead the Fight For Free Trade
Claude Barfield RCM
Dow 16,000 Was a Lot of Fun While It Lasted
Anthony Mirhaydari MSN
7 Mistakes To Avoid In First Retirement Year
Rodney Brooks USA Today
Foreign Stocks, Gold, And Case For a Correction
John Kimelman Barron's
J.P. Morgan Shakedown Includes An Acorn-Style Kickback
Editorial IBD
The SEC Decides to Keep Investors In the Dark
Editorial New York Times
Regulatory Conceit Strangling Tomorrow's Start-Ups
Hester Peirce RCM
Left & Right Are Both Wrong About Regulation
Cass Sunstein Bloomberg
Google Bets On Robots to Take On Amazon?
John Markoff New York Times
Political Class Wages War On Tech Innovation
Dana Rohrabacher Forbes
Min. Wage Boosters Don't Know Basic Economics
D. Furchtgott-Roth RCM
Can You Take a Job 'Mulligan'?
Sue Shellenbarger Wall Street Journal
The College-For-All Model Isn't Working
Tamar Jacoby Los Angeles Times


Thursday, December 5
The Market Seems A Little Nuts, Is It?
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Look Twice @ Most Hated Market In World
Matthew Lynn MarketWatch
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Gold
Peter Schiff Euro Pacific Capital
Who Really Betrayed A Devastated Detroit?
Steve Malanga City Journal
Obama Devotes His Presidency To Inequality
Editorial New York Times
The Young Aren't Buying Obama's Devotion
Editorial Investor's Business
London, New York Approach Inequality Differently
Michael Wolff USAT
Pope Francis Should Be Grateful For Capitalism
Louis Woodhill Forbes
The Tragedy of Teenage Unemployment
Harvey Golub RealClearMarkets
Krugman & Summers Revive Depression Idea
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
Fracking Is U.S.'s 'Greenest' Energy Source
Deroy Murdock New York Post
An Airline Luxury-Club Arms Race
Scott McCartney Wall Street Journal
Businesses Must Not Coddle Workplace Women
Sabrina Schaeffer Forbes
Is a Peanut Pop-Tart An Innovation?
Dennis Berman Wall Street Journal
Can 'Net Fix Wedding Industry Price Gouging?
Catherine Rampell NYT
Should Silicon Valley Fear London's Techno Surge?
William Adams Slate


Friday, December 6
Mandela's Unsung Economic Legacy
C. Kenny Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Go Ahead, Jack Up Those Fast-Food Wages
Daniel Gross The Daily Beast
Why Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Fantasy
Liz Peek The Fiscal Times
Obama Gets Real on Causes of Inequality
Paul Krugman New York Times
Discussion Ignores the Real Facts About Inequality
Robert Frank CNBC
The Challenge Is Growth Not Banal Inequality Cliches
Larry Kudlow NR
So Far, Austerity Is Winning the Economic War
Jeff Cox CNBC
Jack Lew Is Kidding Himself on Too Big to Fail
Rob Garver Fiscal Times
To Understand Today's 'Bubbles,' Look To Distant Past
Jeff Snider RCM
The WTO Makes a Desperate Last Stand at Bali
Paul Blustein Bloomberg
Do We Need to Regulate Communications at All?
Wayne Brough RCM
Worshipers of Non-Profits Are the Luddites of Today
J.T. Young Forbes
All the Obamacare Cancellations Are NOT 'Ordinary'
Liz MacDonald Fox
The Excessive Meanness of O's Healthcare Law
Mark Hendrickson Forbes
Saturday, December 7
Decline Of Splits May Mean Gaga Market
Jason Zweig Wall Street Journal
Where Does the Market Go? Here a Hint: Ho Ho Ho
Patti Domm CNBC
What You Can Learn From Prof. Fama Right Now
Shawn Tully Fortune
Grandparents Can Give Gift Of Financial Awareness
Paul Sullivan NYT
A Strong Jobs Report Could See Early Taper
John Crudele New York Post
Jobs Numbers Improve, But They're Not Strong Enough
Editorial NYT
Obama's Recovery Is Still 7.3 Million Jobs Below Average
Editorial IBD
November Jobs Report Leaves Lot To Be Desired
Rob Garver Fiscal Times
Minimum Wage Debate, and the Real Issues
Zachary Karabell Reuters
Is 'Trickle-Down' Economics Really That Destructive?
George Leef Forbes
Luxury Homeowners Reaching For Super Bowl TD
Amy Gamerman WSJ
Even College Students Can Balance the Budget
Jeffrey Dorfman Forbes
Why Left-Leaning Mandela Embraced Free Markets
Jake Bright Quartz
Obamacare Is Dangerous To Health of the Poor
Clark Judge HughHewitt
WMT Brings More Than Stores to D.C
Jonathan O'Connell Washington Post
Sunday, December 8
Bubbles: No One Really Has Any Idea
Morgan Housel The Motley Fool
Income Inequality Is Overblown
Diana Furchtgott-Roth MarketWatch
Catholics Must Engage the Pope About Capitalism
Alex Chafuen Forbes
The Scandal at the Vatican Bank
Rachel Sanderson Financial Times
Businesses Should Have Religious Rights
Jacob Sullum New York Post
Regulators Prevent a Banking Revolution
Jeremy Warner The Telegraph
The Hedge Fund Way: Pay More, Get Less
Nick Summers Bloomberg BW
After Detroit, Who Will Cut City Pensions Next?
Eric Pianin Fiscal Times
Playing Municipal Pension Games
Gretchen Morgenson New York Times
Japan's Economy-Sapping Slide into Overtaxation
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Mandela and the Legacy of Divestment
Sara Murphy The Motley Fool
Somebody Bought a Tesla with Bitcoins
Melanie Hicken CNNMoney
Monday, December 9
If You Rely On Index Funds, You Celebrate Mediocrity
Jeff Sommer NYT
Heady Stock Market Rally Unlikely To Repeat In '14
E.S. Browning WSJ
Time for Investors To Take Some Chips Off the Table
David Kaufman NP
Britain's Austerity Experiment Didn't Work
John Cassidy New Yorker
Facts Are In: More Government Equals Lower Growth
Jeff Dorfman RCM
China's 'Ghost Cities' Vs. The U.S.'s 'Ghost Country'
John Tamny Forbes
The U.S.'s Coming War of Generations
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Curb Your Enthusiasm Over Improved Jobs Market
Louis Woodhill RCM
GOP Responds To Joblessness With Bad Economics
Paul Krugman NYT
How Housing Collapse Predicts Future of Insurance
Dean Kalahar RCM
A Case For Repeal of the Dodd-Frank Legislation
Peter Wallison Imprimis
Celebrations of TBTF's Demise Are Premature
Simon Johnson Bloomberg
My Two-Hour Meeting With Bernie Madoff
Sital Patel Wall Street Journal
My Story of Working For the Real 'Wolf of Wall Street'
Josh Shapiro NYP
Cashing In On the Quiet Bitcoin Boom
Tangel & O'Brien Los Angeles Times
The Problem Is That Gov't Coins Money At All
Harry Binswanger Forbes
The Fed's Scandalous Monetary Policy
Scott Powell Washington Times
Bank On It: The Fed Is a Friend of the Recovery
Michael Ivanovitch CNBC


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