RealClearMarkets Week of May 1, 2017 Archives

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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


Tuesday, May 2
Let's Count the Ways 'Tax Cuts for Rich' Is a Big Lie
Thomas Sowell Investor's Business
Trump Cuts May Be More Damaging Than Reagan's
Steven Rattner New York Times
Why the Tax Revenue Projections Are Always Wrong
Richard Rahn Washington Times
The Reasons Tax Cuts Won't Be Easy for Republicans
Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg
Dire Debt Outlook Calls for Growth, Not Austerity
Louis Woodhill RealClearPolicy
Trump Will Put Blue State Calls For More Taxes To Test
Glenn Harlan Reynolds USAT
New York Times Is Being Fooled By An Economic Impossibility
John Tamny RCM
The Ways That California Squashes Its Young
Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox City Journal
The U.S. Is Repelling the Very Talent That Drives Prosperity
Rajshree Agarwal USAT
Tillerson's Misguided Plan for Corporate-Style Layoffs at State
Daniel Gross Slate
Don't Worry, ETFs Aren't About to Destroy the World
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg View
Seeking a Policy Response to Coming Robot Takeover
Alice Rivlin RealClearMarkets
At 100 Days, Trump's Economy Talk Lacks Substance
Allan Sloan Washington Post
John Paulson's Fall From Hedge Fund Stardom
Stevenson & Goldstein New York Times


Wednesday, May 3
As Optimism Multiplies, Risk and Disappointment Expand
Doug Kass RealMoney
A Parallel Stock and Bond Rally Has Investors Uneasy
Mark DeCambre MarketWatch
Rarely Has Investor Complacency Been So Broad
Landon Thomas New York Times
An Above-Avg. P/E Ratio Does Not Show Stocks Overpriced
Alan Reynolds Cato 
Mnuchin's 100-Year Bonds Contain Lots of Risks for Traders
Scott Dorf Bloomberg
What O'Reilly's Dismissal Can Tell You About Impact Investing
Bill Baldwin Forbes
$400,000 Speaking Fee Won't Change Barack Obama
Stephanie Cutter USA Today
Is the Federal Reserve Ready to Change Course?
Mohamed El-Erian Bloomberg View
The Fed Needs a Rule for Raising Rates
Mickey Levy & Peter Ireland Economics21
We Have Currency Blocs, Now We Need Currency Stability
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Negative Balance of Trade? So What?
Robert Higgs Foundation for Economic Education
What Readers Can Learn from the Great Nassim Taleb
Jeff Deist Mises Institute
With This Budget Deal, Overflowing Swamp Wins
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
How We Got Here: Our Path to $20 Trillion Budget Deficit
Jonathan Bydlak Medium
So Much We Don't Know About Trump's Tax Cuts
Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Times


Thursday, May 4
A Hidden, Potent Source of California's Economic Vitality
Orly Lobel New York Times
Silicon Valley's Erlich Bachman Is a Capitalist Hero
Kyle Smith National Review
Trump vs. House GOP: Whose Plan Is More Pro-Growth?
Alex Brill RealClearMarkets
Stuck in that Same Old Dead-End Job? Well, Yes and No
Justin Fox Bloomberg View
Tomorrow's Jobs Report Could Make Yellen's Difficult
John Crudele New York Post
What Happened to Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union?
John Tamny RCM
Pulling the Administrative State Off of Autopilot
Wayne Crews Washington Times
Big Business & Big Alarmism: An Unholy Alliance
Julie Gunlock Investor's Business 
Among Teens, Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Alive and Well
Tony Mecia Weekly Standard
The Five Things Active Fund Managers Should Do
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg View
A Good Time to Send Your Stock Portfolio to Europe
John Coumarianos MarketWatch
We're Witnessing Irrational Exuberance, 2017 Style
Anthony Mirhaydari Fiscal Times
Puerto Rico Declares Bankruptcy: How It's Set to Unfold
Nathan Bomey USA Today
Is Tiny Estonia An Exciting Preview of Our Tech Future?
Vivienne Walt Fortune
Has China Become Africa's New Colonial Overlord?
Brook Larmer New York Times
Why Do People Become Communist?
Jeffrey Tucker Foundation for Economic Education


Friday, May 5
A Budget Primer — For Trump And Everyone Else
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
26 Yrs Later, Connectictut Legislators Regret Income Tax
Chris Powell New York Sun
Donald Trump the 'Negotiator' Blindly Passed On a Great Deal
Allan Golombek RCM
Only Economic Illiterates Can't Understand Venezuela
Editorial Investor's Business 
Why Trump's Obsession w/Trade Deficits is Misguided
Don Lee Los Angeles Times
Ending a Class Tax That Favors High Tax States
Stephen Walters National Review
How the Republicans Can Make Tax Cuts Permanent
Sen. Pat Toomey Bloomberg
New York Times Columnist Smears Reagan Tax Record
Brian Riedl National Review
A Cruel Healthcare Bill Focused on Upward Redistribution
Jamelle Bouie Slate
Status Quo: Higher Prices, Fewer Choices & Insurance Companies
Paul Ryan USA
Lives Depend on Fair Trade Protecting U.S. Medical Innovation
Stephen Ubl RCH
Economic Cycles Cut Both Ways, and Can Reverse Painfully
Daniel Gross S+B
Bank Balance Sheets Are the Ancient Black Ocean
Jeffrey Snider RealClearMarkets
Here's Why People Love to Invest at Market Peaks
Anora Mahmudova MarketWatch
What Airlines In the U.S. Would Much Prefer You Not to Know
Editorial USA Today
The Federal Government Is Making It Tougher to Retire
Ben Steverman Bloomberg
Saturday, May 6
World's Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, But Data
The Economist
Signs That First-Quarter Weakness Won't Last
Mohamed El-Erian Bloomberg View
The U.S. Job Market Is On A Historic Growth Streak
Ben Casselman FiveThirtyEight
We’re Getting Awfully Close to Full Employment
Neil Irwin New York Times
The Economy Keeps Improving. Why Aren't Wages?
Danny Vinik Politico
The Taylor Rule Could Put Federal Reserve on Autopilot
Aaron Hankin Investopedia
A Secular Turning Point: The End Of The Great U.S. Cycle
Vincent Deluard Forbes
Why Trying to Predict Stock-Market Tops Is an Exercise in Futility
Sue Chang MW
Obamacare? Trumpcare? Let's Just Get Rid of It All
Chris Rossini Mises Institute
73% of Retirement-Age Americans Failed This Quiz
Alessandra Malito MarketWatch
It's More Than Amazon: Why Retail's In Distress
Courtney Reagan & Leslie Picker CNBC
14 Nuggets: Tesla Has Lots More in Store Than the Model 3
Tom Randall Bloomberg
The Case for Bicycles' Inevitable Triumph Over Cars
Matt McFarland CNN Tech
15 Serious And Not-So Serious Rules For Airline Travel Today
David Koretz Fortune
'Wall Street Porn': Why Wall St. Can't Stop Talking About 'Billions'
Renae Merle WP
The Formula for Winning at Life Is Actually Incredibly Simple
Mark Manson Quartz
Monday, May 8
As An Optimist Turns Pessimistic, Are U.S. Cities in a Crisis?
Justin Davidson NYM
To Regain Its Economic Edge, U.S. Needs Immigrants
Ruchir Sharma New York Times
Donald Trump Is Stuck In a Low-Growth Trap
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Glass-Steagall Reboot: 'Cure' That's Worse Than the Disease
Allan Golombek RCM
The Economy-Sapping Conceit That Is Infrastructure Spending
John Tamny Forbes
To Say Steven Rattner Knows What's Not Is To Be Very Kind
George Harbison RCM
Buffett Confronts Next Big Thing Search After Missed Chances
Noah Buhayar BV
The Days of Big Berkshire Gains Seem Like They're Over
Doug Kass RealMoney
You Wouldn't Have Wanted to Be a Billionaire in 1916
George Will National Review
The U.S. Has a Very Sickly Health Insurance System
Steve Moore Washington Times
The 'Right' to Health Care Is What's Wrong With It
Kevin Williamson National Review
The Critical Coal Plant Trump May Not Be Able to Save
Salena Zito New York Post
What Macron Can Do for Free Markets Everywhere
Mohamed El-Erian Bloomberg View
Macron's Toughest Task: To Keep the EU from Collapsing
David Marsh MarketWatch
Why 401(k)s Vulnerable as Tax Reform Plays Out
Gail MarksJarvis Chicago Tribune
Should You Own or Rent a Home During Retirement?
Maurie Backman Motley Fool
Is America At "Full Employment"? Not Even Close
Terry Jones Investor's Business Daily


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