RealClearMarkets Week of August 21, 2017 Archives

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Monday, August 21
The Escalation Of A China Trade War Is A Truly Dreadful Idea
Allan Golombek RCM
Bankrupt Solar Companies Seek Tariff Protection
Andrew Wilford American Spectator
The Brains and Energy of Immigrants Are Essential for U.S.
Noah Smith Bloomberg
The Business Benefits of Standing by Trump
Silver-Greenberg Protess & Corkery NYT
In the Grand Scheme, Thursday's Plunge Was Pedestrian
Sean Williams Motley Fool
The Real Reason the Stock Markets Swooned on Thursday
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg
The Surprising Truth About the Russell 2K's P/E Ratio
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
Gold Is No More Of An Investment Than Beanie Babies
Gary Smith RealClearMarkets
Stock Buybacks Continue to Inform Corporate Cash
John Aidan Byrne New York Post
The Stock Market Has Been Magical. But It Can't Last.
Jeff Sommer New York Times
Can the Media Marriage of Yahoo & AOL Avoid a Divorce?
Joe Pompeo Vanity Fair
The Origins Of the Industrial Revolution, & Our Growth Culture
Ted McAllister L & L
Charlottesville Hid Trump's Economy-Sapping 'Am. First' Agenda
Bryce Covert TNR
Repealing the ACA Is One Way To Grow the Economy
Scott Powell Investor's Business 


Tuesday, August 22
In Icahn's View, Govt Can't Run What It Cannot Understand
Patrick Radden Keefe TNY
The Boring Little Budget Office That Mr. Trump Hates
Steven Rattner New York Times
In Naively Trashing Inequality, New York Times Channels Trump
John Tamny RCM
Will New York Times/Washington Post Rivalry Save Journalism?
Alex Jones T & C
Why Our Inner Investing World Doesn't Reflect Reality
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg View
Stock Prices Still Look Attractive Now, Compared to Bonds
Gary Smith MarketWatch
When Are Those Penny Stock E-Mails a Good Idea? Never
Mark Hulbert USA Today
Stock-Market Returns, Much Like Politics, Are Not Normal
Dean Curnutt Bloomberg
Rollback of Basel III Accord Is Key to Trump's 3% Growth Goals
Clark Judge RCM
Why Is the Federal Reserve Still So Scared of Inflation?
Editorial New York Times
How a 70-Story Tower Could Transform Notion of DTLA Living
Roger Vincent LAT
My Lawsuit in Silicon Valley Failed. Others Won't In the Future
Ellen Pao New York 
The Right Was Wrong, ACA Markets Have Not Collapsed
Jordan Weissmann Slate
Electric Vehicle Goals Ignore Scientific Facts And Statistics
Steve Pociask Forbes
The Inconvenient Truth About Gore & the Climate "Experts"
Lawrence McQuillan IBD


Wednesday, August 23
How Don Jr. & Eric Trump Are Running Trump Inc.
Peter Robison & Michael Smith BBW
Business Groups Court White House Even Post C.E.O. Defections
David Gelles NYT
Tax Reform In 2017 Is Doomed to Fail. Here's Why It Is
Henry Aaron RealClearMarkets
Trump's Pursuit of Tax Cuts and Deregulation Reveal a Non-Nazi
Kerry Jackson IBD
Currency Devaluations Harm the Economy, Manufacturers Too
Ray Keating RCM
CEOs Talk Good Game, But They're Committed to Trump
David Dayen New Republic
Amazon Is Great for the Economy Because It's Great for Us
Allan Golombek RCM
The Lowflation Demon That Vexes Central Banks
Mohamed El-Erian Bloomberg View
The Fed Has Reached a Dead In Its Capabilities
Richard Rahn Washington Times
S&P 500 Doesn't Offer Much In Way of Return Space
John Coumarianos MarketWatch
Lesser-Known Indicators Pointing to Extreme Overvaluation
John Mauldin Mauldin 
Investors Waiting for Cheap Stocks Can Miss Cheap Stocks
Adam Shell USA Today
How Mark Wahlberg Became Film's Highest-Paid Actor
Natalie Robehmed Forbes
What Seattle Income Tax Fight Says About U.S. Pension Mess
Steven Malanga Fox 


Thursday, August 24
Would Trump Like Tax Cuts, or Congress Focus on a Wall?
Howard Gleckman Forbes
The Economic Opportunity Inside Debt-Ceiling 'Crisis'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Like a Movie Zombie, Tax Reform Refuses to Die
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
ESPN Shows Why Corporations Should Not Be Moral Arbiters
Elliott Kaufman NRO
How Right Went Way Overboard About ESPN and Robert Lee
Robert Silverman TDB
Stupid Things Said by Smart People About Stock Markets
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg
How a Spousal IRA Helps You Pump Up Retirement Savings
Paul Katzeff Investor's 
Why Investors Should Embrace Uncertainty and Volatility
Doug Kass RealMoney
Wanted: A Very Rich Patron for the Once-Great L.A. Times
Joe Nocera Bloomberg
Why Laws Cannot Fix California's Housing Problem
George Skelton Los Angeles Times
Trump's Talk of Leaving NAFTA Is Thankfully Just Bluster
Allan Golombek RCM
The North American Free Trade Agreement Has Been Failure
Richard Trumka USAT
Don't Be a Techno-Pessimist, Innovation Can Save the Day
Bret Swanson The Hill
How Powerball Manipulated Odds On Way to a Jackpot
Alex Horton Washington Post


Friday, August 25
Hollywood Cheers Big Tax Hikes While Pursuing Tax Giveaways
Steven Malanga CJ
Back In Power, GOP Aversion to Debt Goes Out Window
Bryce Covert New York Times
The U.S.'s Hopelessly Overcomplicated Corporate Tax Code
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Without Imports, Your Life Would Be Cruelly Brutal
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
Have We Entered Into the Post-Free Trade Era?
George Will Investor's Business Daily
What Will Be Preet Bharara's Legacy In Age of Trump?
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker
To Be Happy, Understand Marginal Utility
Jeffrey Tucker Foundation for Econ. Education
Three or Six Californias Is Much Easier Said Than Done
Steven Greenhut Spectator
The Stock Market Is Behaving Much Like It Did in the Past
Tim Duy Bloomberg View
If Yellen Goes, the Fed's Current Policy May Go With Her
Binyamin Appelbaum NYT
Central Bankers Know Nothing About Modern Money
Jeffrey Snider RealClearMarkets
Walmart and Google Plot to Change How You Shop
Abha Bhattarai Washington Post
If You Thought Banks Powerful, Check Out the Top of Tech
Justin Fox Bloomberg
Is Anyone Home at Housing & Urban Development?
Alec MacGillis New York Magazine
Saturday, August 26
Millennials Are Driving Suburban Resurgence
Smith Fox & Sen Bloomberg View
The Market Is High. Beware of Portfolio Drift.
Jeff Sommer New York Times
Investors Have Pulled Billions from US Stocks Recently
Evelyn Cheng CNBC
Surprise: Gold Is Doing Better Than U.S. Stocks This Year
Matt Egan CNNMoney
Are Central Banks Nationalising the Economy?
Daniel Lacalle Mises Institute
Yellen's Speech in Jackson Hole May Doom Her Chances at Fed
Greg Robb MW
Eight Ways Digital Currencies Will Change The Financial Landscape
Forbes
Why a Government Shutdown Is Likelier in December
Yuval Rosenberg Fiscal Times
Why Musk May Be Right About Artificial Intelligence Warnings
Ruth Umoh CNBC
What $200 Can Get You in 10 AirBnb's Around the World
Reed Alexander Moneyish
Costco Is Playing a Dangerous Game With the Web
Matthew Boyle BusinessWeek
Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 and the Problem With Feature Abundance
The Week
There's a Clear Link Between Opioid Crisis & U.S. Unemployment
Pedro da Costa BI
Opioid Crisis In America: Here Are Some Basic Solutions
Laurie Garrett ForeignPolicy
Monday, August 28
'Keep it simple, Stupid': Key to Effective Tax Reform
Stephen Moore Washington Times
Will the GOP Tax Bill Be Aimed at the Economic Past, or the Future?
Neil Irwin NYT
The Genius of Nothing: Econ. Lessons of Trump's Presidency
John Tamny Forbes
Shut Down Government, and Investors Will Care
Gretchen Morgenson New York Times
Eleven Ways to Protect Your Money, and Your Sanity, As You Age
Ken Fisher USAT
'Peer Pressure' Sets Up States For Failure as VCs
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
Cuomo's Renewable-Energy Fantasy Threatens L.I. Fishing
Robert Bryce City Journal
The Socialism That the United States Needs Right Now
John Judis The New Republic
The Ongoing Agony Taking Place in Venezuela
Pierpaolo Barbieri National Review
Are Electric Cars Doomed To Fail … Once Again?
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Stock-Market History Says This Bull Has Room to Run
K. Wes Lau RealClearMarkets
How to Deal With a $759 Million Lottery Jackpot Prone to Vanish
Barry Ritholtz BV
Did Mayweather vs. McGregor Fight Create or Destroy Wealth?
Jeffrey Tucker FEE
ESPN Has Become Equal Parts Absurd and Hypocritical
Phil Mushnick New York Post


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