RealClearMarkets Week of April 24, 2017 Archives

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Monday, April 24
The Trump Stock Boom: Real or Just An Illusion?
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
A Weak Dollar Won't Make America Great Again
Steve Moore & John Tamny Investor's
Protectionism Is a Boomerang That Whacks Its Proponents
Allan Golombek RCM
The Reality of Slow Growth About to Intrude on Trump
John Cassidy The New Yorker
Donald Trump's Economic Policies Are the Stuff of 3% Growth
Roger Kimball AG
What Markets Should Conclude From the Election in France
Mohamed El-Erian BBW
Right Now Bonds More Dangerous Than You Think
John Coumarianos MarketWatch
You Are Richer Than Rockefeller
Donald Boudreaux Foundation for Economic Education
Hostile to Free Market Youth Unaware of Communism's Legacy
Marion Smith TDB
Growth: Where High and Low Tax States Match Up
Jonathan Williams National Review
Google Is a Monopoly, Is It Time to Break It Up?
Jonathan Taplin New York Times
Earth Day, Then, Now: Spectacularly Wrong Predictions of Doom
Ronald Bailey RM
Studio 54 Didn't Kill NYC, but It's Also Unrealistic in Today's NYC
Steve Cuozzo NYP
In the House of Murdoch, Sons Begin an Overhaul
Brooks Barnes & Sydney Ember NYT


Tuesday, April 25
Trump Might Be Wise to Discard 'Comprehensive' Tax Reform
James Piereson TWS
Tax Reform Is the Only Way Trump Can Keep Congress
John Batchelor Daily Beast
'Buy American, Hire American':Cruel to U.S. Business & Workers
John Tamny RCM
The Partisan Economic Divide Worries Bernanke
Andrew Ross Sorkin New York Times
Limits on H1-B Workers Will Weaken U.S. Economy
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
The Way to Be a Great Trader Is to Not Be Great
Timothy Sykes New York Observer
What Troubles Me, and What Should Trouble You Too
Doug Kass RealMoney
The Market Eventually Exposes Poorly Positioned Bond Traders
Scott Dorf BBW
The GOP's Attacks on the Poor Are About to Get Stealthier
Kai Wright The Nation
The Average Person Today Really Isn't John D. Rockefeller Rich
Barry Ritholtz BBW
Inclusive Growth Requires Maintenance of Full Employment
Isabel Sawhill RCM
Man Who Took Out Volkswagen Is Only a Hero to Bureaucrats
Eric Peters Spectator
How Hollywood Remembers Trump Adviser Steve Bannon
Connie Bruck New Yorker
Why Driverless Cars Should Leave Us All Unsettled
Vivek Wadhwa Washington Post
No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on Flying Car
John Markoff New York Times


Wednesday, April 26
Republicans Jeopardizing a Huge Tax Cut Over a False Barrier
Steve Forbes Forbes
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes Alive Again
Peter Baker New York Times
How Trump's Tax Cut Plan Would Blow Up the Deficit
Rob Garver The Fiscal Times
Trump's Corporate Tax Cut:Supply-Side Shot In the Arm
Editorial Investor's Business 
How Big Would Biggest Tax Cut Ever Have to Be?
Max Ehrenfreund Washington Post
The Trump Donor Whom Trump Should Listen To
Richard Berman Washington Times
A Thought-Provoking Study of the American Dream's Promise
Jay Lehr RCM
Where Nearly Everyone Is Below Avg: Investing in Funds
Stan Choi Associated Press
Index Funds Are Finally Very Sexy. What a Shame.
Joseph Nocera Bloomberg View
If You Care About Inequality, You Must Also Care About Abortion
Bryce Covert NYT
Robin Hood: Man of the People, or Destructive Thief?
Philip Parrish Fdn for Econ. Edu
Slavery: More Than Monstrous Evil, It Was Bad Economics
Simon Constable Forbes
Can I Afford to Retire Now? The Main Things to Consider
Robert Powell USA Today
Is Your Retirement Account Underfunded?
Brian O'Connell U.S. News & World Report
The Obama Era Rules That the FCC Must Overturn
Karen Kerrigan RealClearMarkets


Thursday, April 27
The Good & Bad News About Trump's Massive Tax Cut Plan
Charles Gasparino NYP
Don't Cut the Corporate Tax, Simply Abolish the Tax
Kevin Williamson National Review
President Trump's Laughable Plan to Cut His Own Taxes
Editorial New York Times
Trump's Tax Proposal Is Most Pro-Growth Since Reagan
Editorial Investor's Business 
Trump's Plan Would Turn All U.S. Into a Wreck Like Kansas
Jordan Weissmann Slate
Slow Growth Since 2005 Indicts Our Present Tax Code
Adam Brandon USA Today
Trump Proposes Giant, Unfunded Tax Cut for Himself
Eric Levitz New York Magazine
Trump Takes Aim at Canadian Lumber, but Injures Americans
Allan Golombek RCM
Why Getting Fired Is Worse Than Divorce, or Spouse Death
Chris Stokel-Walker BBW
Book Review: Chip Mellor and Dick Carpenter's 'Bottleneckers'
John Tamny RCM
Why Instagram Becoming Facebook's Next Facebook
Farhad Manjoo New York Times
The Origins of the Decline, And Fall, off the Empire Of Liberty
Ralph Benko Forbes
Wall Street to Millennial Generation: Don't Fear the Stock Market
Adam Shell USAT
Some Think Trump's Tax Plan Sets Stage for Dow 30,000
Nigam Arora MarketWatch
A History of How Stock Markets Respond to Tax Reform
Ben Carlson Bloomberg
The Market Is Overvalued, But Not In a Manic Phase
Jared Dillian Mauldin Economics


Friday, April 28
The Blue State Rich Might Not Like Trump's Tax Plan
Steven Malanga City Journal
Donald Trump Has a Tax Plan Fit for 140 Characters
William Gale RealClearMarkets
Trump's Tax Plan Is Brilliant Economics, & Even Better Politics
Jeffrey Tucker FEE
It Will Take An Ax, Not A Scalpel, To Control Federal Spending
Adam Brandon IBD
Some Economists Fear 'Debt' Implications of the Tax
James Stewart New York Times
Why White Labor Class Is Ok w/Trump's 'Giveaways' to Rich
Jamelle Bouie Slate
The Global Elite Are Headed for a Fall, and Don't Know It
Damon Linker The Week
Judging the Staying Power of Record Stock Markets
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg View
Based on Average Cost of Retirement, Will You Have Enough?
Wendy Connick MF
Think Trade Deficits Are Economically Harmful? Think Again
Allan Golombek RCM
Why Is the Fed So Fixated on the Inflation Rate?
Randall Holcombe Fdn for Econ. Edu
Predictable Money Means More Than Politicians' Promises
Jeffrey Snider RCM
ESPN Layoffs Should Be a Wake-Up About Politicizing Sports
Dan McLaughlin NR
Why AMZN Is Spending So Much In Hopes of Rivaling Netflix
Elizabeth Weise USAT
Saturday, April 29
In His First 100 Days, Trump Abandons Working Families
Sen. Charles Schumer USA 
Sorry, But Calling Weak Q1 GDP A 'Report Card' On Trump Is Absurd
Editorial IBD
Under Trump Plan, We All Might Want to Be Corporations
Neil Irwin New York Times
All Those Market 'Bubble' Sightings Turned Out to Be Mirages
Noah Smith BBW
'Trump Bump' Boosts Stocks, Giving Pres. a 100 Day Win
Michael De La Merced NYT
It Was Capitalism That Ultimately Defeated Bill O'Reilly
Nicholas Grossman Arc
The Countless Ways That Drones Are Changing the World
Jon Ogg 24/7 Wall Street
Under Armour Feels Wider Effects of Retail Turmoil
Sarah Halzack Washington Post
Some Mistakes That Can Derail Your Early Retirement
Rebecca Lake U.S. News
Andy Serwer Interviews the Men Who Will Replace Warren Buffett
Andy Serwer YF
France's Election: Your Cue to Hedge European Exposure
John Coumarianos MW
Book Review: Michael Breen's 'The New Koreans'
John Tamny Wall Street Journal
Putin's Paradise: Will His Keynesian Bacchanal In Sochi Survive?
Paul Starobin CJ
Wal-Mart Steps Up as Government Fiddles on Global Warming
Jay Michaelson TDB
Monday, May 1
The Potentially Perilous Message of the Bond Market
Byron Wien Blackstone Group
If You're Going to Call a 'Bubble', What's Your Data?
Noah Smith Bloomberg View
America Is Undertaxed, and Taxes Will Go Up
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Real and Sustained Growth Will Bring Down Deficit
Stephen Moore Washington Times
GOP Is Blind to Basic Truth That 'Deficits' Really Do Not Matter
John Tamny Forbes
Yes, the United States Can Afford Trump's Tax Cuts
Tyler Cowen New York Post
Trump Is Peddling the Same Old Reaganite Snake Oil
William Greider The Nation
Odds Are Against Fair Tax Reform This Time Around
Bill Bradley New York Times
Donald Trump's Tax Plan Is Bad for the Middle Class
David Cay Johnston Daily Beast
Alas, the Mortgage-Interest Deduction Cannot Be Pried Away
George Will NRO
Trump Would Do Well to Embrace Hamiltonian Nationalism
Raph Benko Forbes
With NAFTA, Trump May End Up With Deal He Started With
Allan Golombek RCM
To Rely on Social Security in Retirement Is to Play w/Fire
Sean Williams Motley Fool
ESPN Is A Reminder That Market Forces Are Relentless
Tho Bishop Arc Digital
To Beat Inequality, Remember Your Advantages
Sendhil Mullainathan New York Times


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