RealClearMarkets Week of May 8, 2017 Archives

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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


Tuesday, May 9
In Reality, the VIX Tells Us Very Little About Tomorrow
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg View
There's No Recession, But Market Correction Could Cause One
George Perry RCM
At the Berkshire Annual Meeting, Charlie Munger Stole the Show
Doug Kass RM
Will Senate Republicans Save Party from Economic Suicide?
Steve Forbes Forbes
With Taxes It's Not Size of the Cuts, It's Their Permanence
Ken Fisher USA Today
The 'Low Growth Trap' Is Ruchir Sharma's Worldview
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Can Korea Sustain Its Ongoing Economic Miracle?
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Hourly Workers Are the Future, and Should Be Catered To
Peter Harrison USA Today
Our Trade Deficit Puts Us on the Brink of Financial Crisis
Peter Morici Fox News
I Seldom Encounter Morici's Confusion Even Among Freshmen
Don Boudreaux CH
Killing Banking Rules Will Invite a Whopper of a Downturn
Mark Thoma Fiscal Times
The Watchdogs Keeping Wall Street in Check 
Sheelah Kolhatkar The New Yorker
A Business Case for Paris Climate Deal
George Shultz & Ted Halstead New York Times
Why President Trump Should Dump Paris Climate Deal
Editorial Investor's Business 
The Maybach S-550 Is a Rolling, $178,000 Presidential Suite
Josh Max Forbes
If You're Rich In a World of Deprivation, You're Immoral
A.Q. Smith Current Affairs
Washington Handed Puerto Rico Disastrous Incentives
Steven Malanga City Journal


Wednesday, May 10
Donald Trump's Tax Cuts Will Bring Back the Growth Times
Brian Domitrovic Forbes
Trump's Tax Proposal Could Lead to Wide Avoidance
Kate Kelly & Alan Rappeport NYT
With Healthcare, GOP Just Pretends It's for Free Market
Ben Shapiro National Review
Trump Won Because He Knows Elections Are About Economy
Ralph Benko Forbes
Never Listen to Investing Experts' Short-Term Opinions
Cullen Roche MarketWatch
Why Investors Should Trust Hard Data Much More
Charles Lieberman Bloomberg View
Why Federal Workers Out-Earn Private Sector
Norman Leahy RealClearInvestigations
TPP 2.0 May Be On the Way; U.S. On the Sidelines
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
How Homeownership Became An Engine of U.S. Inequality
Matthew Desmond NYT
Fancy Prisons for Billionaires Reshaping Manhattan Skyline
Justin Davidson NYM
What's Going on Between Goldman & the Federal Government?
John Crudele NYP
The Feds Turn a Blind Eye to Goldman Sachs's Game
David Dayen The Fiscal Times
Can France Break Out of Its Long Economic Slump?
Ray Keating RealClearMarkets
A Eurocrat Who Makes Corporate America Tremble
Samanth Subramanian Bloomberg


Thursday, May 11
Americans Leaving California, Illinois & New York
Ryan McMaken Mises Institute
Buffett: U.S. 'Out Of Whack' on Healthcare More Than Taxes
Kelly Phillips Erb Forbes
Bye-Bye! Aetna to Obamacare: We Are Getting Out of Here
Tami Luhby CNNMoney
Red Tape: The Biggest Barrier to Rebuilding US Infrastructure
Liz Peek Fiscal Times
Gridlock at the FTC Prolongs D.C.'s Regulatory Status Quo
William Shughart RCM
Pressure Is Building on the Federal Reserve to Raise Rates Faster
Tim Duy BV
Concerns Over China Are Greatly Exaggerated
Allen Cheng Institutional Investor
Should Investors Worry About Markets Lack of Worry?
Martin & Burton The Telegraph
Buying Into the Turmoil: Investors Embrace the Risks
Landon Thomas NY Times
Here Is Why the Stock Market Isn't Freaking Out Over Comey
William Watts MW
A Nightmare Scenario Is Beginning for Ford and GM
Matthew DeBord Yahoo Finance
Snap Lays a Big Stinky Egg Hatched Out of Twitter's Nest
Jennifer Saba Reuters
These Are the Top 10 Highest-Paid Executives for 2016
Anders Melin Bloomberg
How Pixar's Billions Mock Fear of IP Theft, Robots,& Recessions
John Tamny RCM
It Took a Century to Create the Weekend—a Decade to Kill It
Katrina Onstad Quartz


Friday, May 12
A Revealing New Report on White Economic Hardship
Max Ehrenfreund WaPo
Transcript: Our Interview On Economic Policy with Donald Trump
The Economist
The 3 Biggest Economic Errors in Trump's Interview with The Economist
Quartz
Has the Trump Economy Finally Hit Full Employment?
Rick Newman Yahoo Finance
Obamacare's Crushing Cost to Some American Families
Dan Mangan CNBC
Discounted Cars Benefit Buyers, but May Spell Trouble
Neil Boudette New York Times
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Macy's and the Day Retail Died
Michael Kramer Investopedia
We Converted $100 Into As Many Currencies As Possible
Carl Bialik FiveThirtyEight
If Canadians Want to Pay For Your Travel, Why Not?
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
OPEC to the U.S.: Please Don't Pump So Much Oil!
Ivana Kottasova CNNMoney
Is Germany Unbalanced or Simply Unhinged?
Barry Eichengreen Project Syndicate
21 Questions and Answers with Schwab Powerhouse Liz Ann Sonders
Hedgeye
Ivory Tower Wonks Help Traders Make a Quick Buck
Noah Smith Bloomberg View
If Benjamin Graham Were Alive, What Would He Buy?
John Navin Forbes
Just As In the 1930s, Liquidity Preferences Still Rule
Jeffrey Snider RealClearMarkets
Saturday, May 13
Why Do Minnesota Teams Never Win? Consider MN's Income Tax
Erik Hembre NYT
Have Rich In America Become Its "Super Citizens"?
Lovia Gyarkye The New Republic
Thoughts on Why We Still Don't Have Flying Cars
Glenn Harlan Reynolds USA Today
The Strongest Cases Against the Fed & Meddling Yet
George Leef Future of Freedom
Even Conservatives Have Socialism Inside Their Heads
Robert Tracinski Federalist
Getting Mad at the Wrong Donald Trump Economic Blunder
Justin Fox Bloomberg
The Economic School That You've Never Heard Of
Valentin Schmid Epoch Times
Amazon Has Made Seattle Much Richer, and Angrier
Joni Balter Bloomberg View
People Are Happier Than Ever With Airline Service
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
A Robotics Revolution, Only This Time It's in China
Keith Bradsher New York Times
Venezuela Is a Socialist Calamity
Steven Horwitz Foundation for Economic Education
Huge Headwinds Stock Market Bulls are Ignoring
Anthony Mirhaydari The Fiscal Times
Why Saturday Night Fever Wouldn't Be a Major Blockbuster Today
Kyle Smith NRO
Monday, May 15
In Exile: The Cruelly Sad & Solitary Life of Ruth Madoff
Isabel Vincent New York Post
Hot Stocks Are Like Lottery Numbers: Very Low Odds
Jeff Sommer New York Times
Unusually Low Volatility Can Be Dangerous for Stocks
Mohamed El-Erian Bloomberg
An Eerie Similarity to '07, Before the Bulls Were Slaughtered
Doug Kass RealMoney
Trump and the GOP Prepare for Tax Code Bonfire
Joseph Lawler Washington Examiner
Trump Tax Plan: Cutting the Gordian Knot of Tax Policy Debate
Jim Altenbach RCM
The Fallacy Of The Charitable Deduction
Rob Arnott & John Tamny Investor's Business 
Long Ago American Government Ran on Lotteries, Not Taxes
Sarah Laskow FEE
Obamacare Taxes Proved Dangerous to Our Health
Stephen Moore Washington Times
Is Germany Presently Unbalanced, or Unhinged?
Barry Eichengreen Project Syndicate
Globalization's Ill Effects Are Wildly Exaggerated
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
While Apple Could Break $1 Trillion, It Looks Vulnerable
Zachary Karabell Wired
How Many Jobs Has Donald Trump Really Saved?
Steven Rattner New York Times
A Theory on Why Working Class Americans Voted wMiddle Finger
Kyle Smith NYP
Donald Trump Is Waging a War on the Working Class
Robert Borosage The Nation
The (Western) States Where Economy Isn't Struggling to Recover
Justin Fox BBW
Social Mobility Remains Strong in Land of Opportunity
Scott Winship National Review


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