RealClearMarkets Week of May 15, 2017 Archives

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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


Tuesday, May 16
Taxes, and Warren Buffett's Shareholder Sophistry
George Harbison RealClearMarkets
The New York Times' Tax Coverage Is the Stuff of Fake News
Ira Stoll New York Sun
Dear Mr. President, Stock Market Doesn't Know What to Expect
Dan Kern U.S. News 
To Boost Small Business, First Free Up Banks That Serve Them
Hal Scott NYT
Wall Street Wants to Turn Back the Clock to the Year 2007
Editorial USA Today
These 25 Hedge Fund Managers Earned $11B
Alexandra Stevenson New York Times
The Chinese Are Just Like Us: They Want Things
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Rupert Murdoch's Managment Disaster at Fox
Gabriel Sherman New York Magazine
Tom Siebel on a Witless GE, And His Near Death in Africa
Rich Karlgaard Forbes
Coal and Natural Gas Are Foes, Not Natural Allies
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
How Much $20/Week In Retirement Savings Can Mushroom Into
Paul Katzeff IBD
An American Tax on Canada That Harms America and Canada
Lawrence Reed FEE
The Other Side of the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet
Ben Emons Bloomberg View
The Higher and Higher Cost of Higher Ed
Jimmy Sengenberger The Weekly Standard
Forget Puerto Rico, What About U.S. States' Soaring Pension Debts?
Editorial IBD
Why Stock-Market Investors Are Falling Back In Love w/Europe
William Watts MW
The Grand Economic Experiment In Europe Is Failing
Richard Rahn Washington Times


Wednesday, May 17
The Presidency Is in Crisis. Why Are the Markets Still So Calm?
Daniel Gross Slate
These Elevated Stock Prices May Be Here to Stay
John Coumarianos MarketWatch
The Only Question Investors Have Is About Donald Trump
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg
The American Dystopia Didn't Begin w/Donald Trump
Darrell Delamaide MarketWatch
Mutual Funds Ate the Stock Market. Now ETFs Are Doing It
Justin Fox Bloomberg
Tech CEOs: Anarcho-Libertarian Threat to Democracy?
Mark Epstein National Review
ESPN Is Betting on Big Personalities
Sydney Ember & Brooks Barnes New York Times
New Analysis Turns Up Surprise on Long-Term Wage Trends
Gary Burtless RCM
Sen. Warren Concocts Another Way to Make Life More Expensive
Eric Peters TAS
Will You Earn More Working In Private Sector, or Government?
Richard Ebeling FEE
Can Trump Actually Bring Jobs Back to Ford Motor Company?
Lisa Miller New York
How Republicans Block Cities From Raising Min. Wage
Clio Chang The New Republic
It's Time to Enact Common Sense Financial Reform
Rep. Bill Huizenga USA Today
With Tax Reform, Save Forest Rather Than Cut Down Trees
Pinar Cebi Wilber RCM
Time to Drop the Title 'Thought Leader' From Your Resume
Simon Constable Forbes
There's Good Airline News that You're Not Hearing About
Glenn Reynolds USA Today


Thursday, May 18
Sell-Off Is As Much About Earnings As It Is About Trump
Howard Gold MarketWatch
The 'Orange Swan' Looms Ever Closer: Sell Stocks, Buy Gold
Doug Kass RealMoney
Saudis Expect Big Economic Boost From Trump Visit
John Sfakianakis Bloomberg
Trump Should Never Forget It's All About the Economy
Editorial Investor's Business
'Baumol's Disease' Is What Policymakers Should Be Considering
George Will NRO
Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future
Farhad Manjoo New York Times
Crossing the Congo Is a Journey Across Hell on Earth
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Life Expectancy: Another Way the Rich Get Richer
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
How 'Predatory Lending' Traps Naive American Borrowers
Jimmy Tobias The Nation
DeVos Wants to Kill a Major Loan Forgiveness Program
Jordan Weissmann Slate
Why the Federal Reserve Is Wrong to Obsess About Wages
Caroline Baum MW
Texas Taxpayers Have Become Captives of Their Civil Servants
Mark Pulliam CJ
Facing a Severe Housing Shortage, California Loosens Up
Noah Smith Bloomberg
Jerry Brown Plays the 'Frugal Adult' While Secretly Spending
Carson Bruno RCM
The Revolt of the California 'Freeloaders'
Steven Greenhut The American Spectator
The Handmaid's Tale Is a Collectivist Dystopia
Brittany Hunter Foundation for Econ. Edu


Friday, May 19
Embrace the Suck, Without Which There's No Effect on the World
Cliff Asness AQR 
How Investors Can Avoid Losing in the Age of Trump
Nigam Arora MarketWatch
In Tumult of Trump, Jon Corzine Seeks a Wall Street Comeback
Ben Protess NYT
Moving Beyond Economy-Sapping 1970s Environmentalism
Todd Myers RCM
The Next Mobile Phone Revolution Is Coming
Leonid Bershidsky Bloomberg View
A Century Later, Mises Is Still Being Validated
MN Gordon Foundation for Econ. Edu. 
Seeing Yet Another Debt Crisis That Isn't Actually There
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg
Monetary Policy That Is Strangely Devoid of Money
Jeffrey Snider RealClearMarkets
The Retirement Moves You Should Make in Your 40s
Maurie Backman Motley Fool
How Roger Ailes Built an Empire, and Changed TV News Forever
Lloyd Grove TDB
Ailes Endured Hatred and Truth, and It Ultimately Killed Him
Bill O'Reilly USA Today
When On His Game, Roger Ailes Had Few - If Any - Peers
Editorial New York Sun
A Wild Ride in Shotgun With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
Adam Lashinsky Fortune
Don't Fear Robots: Technophobia Is Path to Stagnation
Rich Lowry National Review
Workers Are Needed, But They Keep Getting High
Danielle Paquette Washington Post
Saturday, May 20
How the Very Rich Talk to Their Children About Money
Paul Sullivan New York Times
Don't Bet Against Tax and Healthcare Reform in 2017
Larry Kudlow National Review
Contrary to His Self-Billing, Donald Trump Is a Job Killer
Bryce Covert New Republic
Why Businessmen Fail at Government
Ludwig von Mises Foundation for Econ. Education
It's Time for the Government to Give Everyone a Job
David Dayen The Nation
Economic Forecasting Is Still Very Much Broken
Narayana Kocherlakota Bloomberg
Could Procter & Gamble Be the Next Kodak?
Alexander Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer
Roger Ailes Is Dead, but the Right-Wing Bubble Lives On
Bruce Bartlett USA Today
Steve Cohen Makes Comeback
Alexandra Stevenson & Matthew Goldstein New York Times
Doug DeCinces Faces Prison Time for Bringing Information to Markets
Tom Firey
The Shocking Election That Saved Israel's Economy
Zev Chafets Bloomberg View
FCC Takes 1st Step Toward Totally Free & Open Internet
Editorial Investor's Business 
Monday, May 22
Venezuela's An Impoverished Human Rights Disaster
Steve Moore Washington Times
What Trump Wants From NAFTA Is What He Had With TPP
Allan Golombek RCM
If Trump Thinks He Can Exceed 3%, He's Dreaming
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Toward a New Bretton Woods Agreement
Reuven Brenner American Affairs Journal
Compassion Is Good, But Never, Ever, Pity The American Male
John Tamny Forbes
Oil & Climate Alarmism Don't Mix For Shareholders
Steven Milloy Investor's Business 
Old Ways of Measuring Output Are No Longer Sufficient
Walter Russell Mead TAI
America's Cities Are Rapidly Running Out of Room
Patrick Clark Bloomberg View
Why Are CEOs Being Paid Tons of Money for Nothing?
Steven Clifford New York Post
If Every Day Is a Rainy Day, What Am I Saving For?
Samantha Irby New York Times
If Trump Exits, Pros Think Stocks Would Rebound Under Pence
Adam Shell USAT
In the Stock Market, 'America First' Companies Underperform
Jeff Sommer NYT
For Stocks It's a Battle of Bearish Politics Versus Bullish Liquidity
Sue Chang MW
This Bull Market Might Not Be Hated, But It Still Isn't Trusted
Michael Santoli CNBC


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