RealClearMarkets Week of October 23, 2017 Archives

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Monday, October 23
The Captains of Major Finance Dismiss Bitcoin at Their Peril
Zachary Karabell Wired
Bitcoin's Surge to $5,600 Shows Why It's Such a Junk Currency
John Tamny Forbes
Why It's a Waste of Energy to Worry about 'Expensive' Stocks
Ken Fisher USA Today
The DJIA Is Telling the Most Important Story About Trump
Editorial New York Post
Listen to Will of the People, and Cut Taxes Now
Jonathan Johnson RealClearMarkets
Why Trumponomics Is Really Working
Stephen Moore & Arthur Laffer Washington Times
Tax Cuts Won't Drive As Much Growth as Trump Hopes
Don Lee Los Angeles Times
Ignore the Critics, Tax Cuts Will Make America Great Again
Dave Cribbin RCM
Kevin Hassett Is Betting Corporate-Tax Cuts Will Deliver Growth
George Will NRO
Don't Be Fooled by Corporate Tax/Wage Correlation
Paul Krugman New York Times
Blaming Failure on Externalities Is Verbal Heroin
Kevin Williamson National Review
The Future of Banking Probably Isn't Banking
Andy O'Sullivan Fdn. for Econ. Education
If We Must Rewrite NAFTA, Scrap Farm Subsidies
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
China's Critical Role In Technology and Geopolitics
Byron Wien The Blackstone Group
Driverless Cars Made Me Nervous. Then I Tried One.
David Leonhardt New York Times


Tuesday, October 24
Let's Drop All the Pretense, the Republicans Aren't Cutting Taxes
John Tamny RCM
Here's What's Important About the Federal Budget
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Trump's Deregulation Agenda Hurts the Economy, Plus Voters
Ralph Nader NYT
Dems Fight To Protect $1.8 Trillion Tax Break That Benefits Top 1%
Editorial IBD
Trump Is Correct about 401(k) Contribution Limits
Jonathan Tobin National Review
Human Ingenuity Doesn't Sap Our Abilities, It Advances Them
Allan Golombek RCM
Why Wall Street May Have Its Own Weinstein Problem
Renae Merle Washington Post
In Saudi Desert, World's Business Leaders Follow Money
Andrew Ross Sorkin NYT
Global Poverty Fighters Are Institutions Gone Rogue
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Government Aid Increases Global Poverty, As Opposed to Easing It
Brad Lips Fox
Where Amazon Ends Up Depends on Utopian Criteria Prioritized
Steven Malanga CJ
The Right Speech at the Right Time from a Former President
Ray Keating RCM
Why President Trump Should Keep Janet Yellen As Fed Chair
Editorial USA Today
Why Trump Should Name Himself New Chair of Federal Reserve
John Crudele NYP


Wednesday, October 25
We Risk The Big Error of 'Income Tax Reform' In Name Only
Brian Domitrovic Forbes
Donald Trump's Fragile Ego Keeps Threatening Tax Reform
John Harwood CNBC
U.S. Needs to Re-Learn How to Cut Taxes
Lewis Uhler & Peter Ferrara Washington Times
A Corporate Tax Cut Should Appeal to Both Sides
Hunt Lawrence & Daniel Flynn TAS
Trump Administration Confuses Trade With a Football Game
Allan Golombek RCM
Expelling Immigrant Workers May Also Deport Work They Do
Eduardo Porter NYT
Volatility May Be the World's Only Undervalued Asset Class
Doug Kass RealMoney
Ideas for Protecting Retirement Savings From a Correction
Adam Shell USA Today
Some Reasons to Worry Amid This Rising Stock Market
Jeff Reeves MarketWatch
Spin-Offs Set to Radically Change Companies In 2017 and 2018
Jon Ogg 24/7 Wall
Colin Kaepernick Confirms That the NFL Is a Business
Jeffrey Dorfman Forbes
Connecticut Enters a Brave New World of Tax and 'Don't Spend'
Red Jahncke NRO
Planes, Trains, & Hyperloops? Elon Musk's Vision Draws Nearer
Haley Skinner E21
It's Time for the Feds to Reinvent the Federal Reserve
Zachary Karabell The Guardian
Ignore the Critics, The Jones Act Enhances Puerto Rican Relief
Travis Korson RCM


Thursday, October 26
How Pres Trump Got the Economy Booming in Less Than a Year
Peter Ferrara NYO
The Republicans Shouldn't Raid 401(k) Plans to Pay for Tax Cuts
Seth Harris CNBC
Raising Carried Interest Rate Will Choke Economic Growth
Jared Whitley Investor's 
Faux-Populist Republicans Just Caved to the Big Banks
John Cassidy New Yorker
Making a Case For Why Trump's Federal Reserve Pick Matters
Paul Davidson USAT
Donald Trump: Washington's King of Deregulation?
Peter Boyer The Weekly Standard
Insane GOP Plan to Lower Taxes for Billionaires
Jonathan Chait New York Magazine
Rick Perry's Anti-FreeMarket Plan to Help Coal
Jody Freeman & Joseph Goffman NYT
How Jared Kushner Is Hurting His Family's Business Empire
Rich Cohen Vanity Fair
The Industries That Are Hiring The Most College Grads In 2018
Jeff Kauflin Forbes
Robots Won't Kill Capitalism, They'll Just Rev It Up
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
Puerto Rico Reconstruction Is Taking on a 'Philly' Like Stench
Kevin Williamson NR
Why Members of the Right Blame Poverty on the Poor
Sarah Jones The New Republic
Book Review: How Alexander Hamilton Set America Back
Jay Lehr RealClearMarkets


Friday, October 27
Abolishing California's State Tax Deduction Isn't Conservative
Brandon Crocker TAS
The Trumped Up Trickle Down Economics Myth
Jimmy Sengenberger RealClearMarkets
It's Time For the Republican Party to Act on Tax Reform
Grover Norquist USA Today
Donald Trump's $700 Billion Gift to Rich Foreigners
Paul Krugman New York Times
Why Tax Reform Will Fuel Economic Growth
Sens. John Cornyn & Bill Cassidy Forbes
Canada's 'Outcome' Desire As Silly As Trump's Protectionism
Allan Golombek RCM
Central Bankers Could Have Cleaned Things Out 10 Years Ago
Jeffrey Snider RCM
In His Gold Dismissal, James Ledbetter Shows Why He's Mad
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Apple & Nike Show Share Returns Linked to How They Invest
Philip van Doorn MW
Should I Purchase An Annuity For Retirement Income?
Matthew Frankel Motley Fool
With Your Portfolio, You Can Never Be 'Overweight' Fama
Cliff Asness AQR Capital
CA's Handouts Will Tell Us Nothing About Universal Basic Income
Oren Cass CJ
Following the (Bike) Trail to Amazon's Second Headquarters
James Stewart NYT
How Chevron's Watson Fought a Landmark Legal Battle --- And Won
John Shu IBD
Saturday, October 28
In Suppressing 'Fake News,' Facebook Is Blinding Its Users
James Bovard USA Today
Market Is Poised to Deliver Not Even Half Historical Return
William Baldwin Forbes
Divisions Remain As the GOP Nears Tax Deadline
DeBonis & Paletta Washington Post
Donald Trump Needs to Think Big on Tax Cuts
Steve Forbes & Ken Blackwell Fox News
Trump's Tax Reform: Nothing Like Ronald Reagan's
Sen. Charles Schumer USA Today
Forget the Fed and Interest Rates, Trump Needs a Stable Dollar
Larry Kudlow NRO
GOP Will Pay for Corporate Cut With Future Tax Increases
Jed Graham Investor's 
World's Poorest Getting Richer Faster Than Anyone Else
Alexander Hammond FEE
Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuses Continue, and the People Suffer
George Leef Forbes
This Is Why You Shouldn't Count on Social Security
Alessandra Malito MarketWatch
Social Security's Safer Than You're Being Led to Believe
Matthew Frankel Motley Fool
Donald Trump, Protectionist In Chief, Will Kill American Jobs
Shikha Dalmia Reason
Monday, October 30
In Targeting State Tax Deduction, Republicans Embrace Myth
Brandon Crocker TAS
You're Actually Better Off in a State With a Higher Income Tax
Carl Davis Fortune
The Biggest Reasons to Despise the IRS Tax Code
Stephen Moore Washington Times
GOP Tax Proposal Is Politics at Its Most Cynical
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
GOP Must Stop Negotiating With Itself on Taxes, and Go Bold
Dave Cribbin RCM
Ongoing Gridlock Should Have You Optimistic About Market
Ken Fisher USA Today
How to Be a CEO, From a Decade's Worth of Executives
Adam Bryant New York Times
To Slow Its Ratings Decline, NFL Must Start Firing Bad Owners
John Tamny Forbes
A Big Economic Lesson, Care of Astros v. Dodgers
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
Company Failure Is a Sign of Prosperity, Not the Source of 'Crisis'
Mark Perry FEE
Say Hello to 3% Growth In Gross Domestic Product
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Boeing Is the Darkest of Pots, Calling the Kettle Black
George Will National Review
Why the Bond Market's Gains Aren't Boring Right Now
Jeff Sommer New York Times
A Treasury 'Bubble' That Never Came
Michele Mazzoleni Ashish Garg Research Affiliates


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