RealClearMarkets Week of October 30, 2017 Archives

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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


Tuesday, October 31
As I Retire, Lessons Learned From Friedman, Sowell, & Mom
Gene Epstein Barron's
Tax Policy Center: Trump Wants to Raise Your Taxes
David Leonhardt New York Times
Middle Class Will Be Victimized by Any GOP Tax Hikes on the 1%
John Tamny RCM
Reducing Taxes: As Close to 'Free Lunch' As There Is
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Republicans Fall Into Dems' Same Old Deficit Trap
J.T. Young The American Spectator
Without Phase-Ins or Hikes on Rich, GOP Must Cut Taxes Fast
Deroy Murdock NRO
The Merits and Demerits of the GOP's Feeble Tax Plan
Bill Walton Common Ground
Regime Uncertainty Continues To Hold Down Loans, Economy
Steve Hanke Forbes
The Fed Chair Should Be a 'Principled Populist'
Stephanie Kelton & Paul McCulley NYT
Why Trump's Fed Choice May Not Be a Disaster After All
Jordan Weissmann Slate
President Trump Stirs Trade Policy Pot With Nafta "Sunset Clause"
Robert Krol IBD
Memo to Populists, William Jennings Bryan Loathed Tariffs
Richard Hurowitz USAT
Underlying Manafort Indictment Is a Happy Story of Brooklyn's Boom
Ira Stoll NYS
Legal Theorists Behind Financial Takeover of Puerto Rico
Simon Davis-Cohen Nation


Wednesday, November 1
Desperate For Money, States Turn To Risky Forms of Gambling
Steven Malanga CJ
Fighting NAFTA, Wilbur Ross Hops In Bed With Lefty Unions
Allan Golombek RCM
If You Think Them Expensive, a Roadmap to Cheaper Stocks
Michael Brush MW
A Long Time Ago, In a Stock Market & Galaxy Far, Far Away
Doug Kass RealMoney
Two Ways the 2017 Market Differs from '00 & 07
Lawrence Hamtil Fortune Financial
Business Schools Where Applicants Most Want To Go In 2017
Jeff Kauflin Forbes
Removing Barriers to Women at Work
Jay Shambaugh Ryan Nunn & Becca Portman RCM
In a Superstar Economy, a Bull Market in Superstar Harassers
Noam Scheiber NYT
Rich Americans Are the Winners of GOP's Mad Dash to Cut Taxes
David Dayen TNR
Corporate Tax Repatriation Is the Patriotic Policy
Hunt Lawrence & Daniel Flynn TAS
The Rates Inside Obamacare's Perverse Economics
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Thoughts on What Might Happen As Fed Unwinds QE
Alex Pollock Law and Liberty
Apple Is Asking You to Break Up With Home Button
Geoffrey Fowler Washington Post
Ready for the Golden Years? Some Facts About Retirement Savings
Stan Choe AP


Thursday, November 2
Smart Tax Reform Will Make It Easier to Save for Retirement
Roger Ferguson USAT
Stock-Market Investors Should Fear These Four Simple Words
Shawn Tully Fortune
You're Being Given Bad Information About Market Volatility
Simon Maierhofer MW
Judge Your Bitcoin Investment With Eye On Risk, Not Return
Michael Cannivet RCM
Republicans Trying to Pass Tax Plan That Everybody Hates
Jordan Weissmann Slate
On Tax Reform, the GOP Should Have Gone Big & Bold, but Didn't
George Will NRO
Kevin Hassett's Odd Fix for Joblessness: More Government Jobs
John Tamny RCM
The X Is Best iPhone Ever Made, But You May Not Be Ready For It
Brian Chen NYT
What Does CVS/Aetna Say About the Future of Healthcare?
Robert Samuelson WP
The 'Nanny State' Has Rendered Meaningless the Idea Of Fraud
Peter Schwartz HP
The Oil Boom's Roots in East Texas Cotton Farming
Scot McFarlane Texas Monthly
A Month Later, and With Lots of Federal 'Help,' PR Is in the Dark
Nicole Gelinas CJ
Powell Is the 'Boring' Fed Choice, But Perhaps Best for Markets
Patti Domm CNBC
Powell Would Be Richest Fed Chairman Since the 40s
Heather Long Washington Post


Friday, November 3
A Tax Cut That Lifts the Economy? Opinions Are Split
Patricia Cohen New York Times
House Bill Reduces Taxes on Middle, Denies the Rich Tax Relief
Ryan Ellis Forbes
The D.C. Math That Could Whack 401(k)s for Millions
Allan Sloan Washington Post
GOP's Tax Reform: Despite Flaws, It's a Big Improvement
Editorial Investor's Business
A GOP Tax Plan For the Most Gilded of Economic Ages
Editorial New York Times
What to Do With Your 401(k) When You Ultimately Retire
Wendy Connick Motley Fool
The Secret to Wooing Investors? It's About Communication
Kara Alaimo Bloomberg
Some Tips On How to Tame Your Student-Loan Debt
Paul Katzeff Investor's Business 
How Corporations Create Culture of Impunity for Sex Harassers
Bryce Covert TNR
Amazon's Second Headquarters Is a Gift, Not a Burden
Philip Devoe National Review
Jerome Powell Believes As Economists Do, Without the Ph.D.
Jeffrey Snider RCM
The Problem Is That We're Discussing Jerome Powell to Begin With
Editorial NYS
Undoing President Obama's Damage Will Take Time
Ray Keating RealClearMarkets
Like Past Advances,Era Of Oil & Gas Is Nearing Its End
Andreas De Vries OilPrice.com
Saturday, November 4
6 Charts That Help Explain the Republican Tax Plan
Alicia Parlapiano New York Times
The House GOP's Tax Bill Is a Dud - and They Know It
James Pethokoukis The Week
The Companies Set to Benefit Most From Repatriation
Joe Ciolli Business Insider
GOP Tax 'Reform' Strategy Worse Than Partisan. It's Petty
Editorial Board USA Today
The GOP's Tax Plan Does Almost Nothing for the 99 Percent
Bryce Covert TNR
Jerome Powell Sees Value in Using Rules as Benchmarks
Tate Lacy Cato Institute
The Fading Scent of the American Dream
Charles Hugh Smith The Daily Reckoning
The Top Five Global Economic Challenges
Kalin Anev Janse Knowledge@Wharton
Facebook DOES NOT Have a Monopoly on the News
Joshua Gans Digitopoly
The Downside to Tech's Growing Systemic Importantance
Mohamed El-Erian PS
Three Times Your Salary in Savings by 40 Is Absurd
Merryn Somerset Webb Guardian
Avoiding Rapid and Frequent Bouts of Irrationality
Safal Niveshak SafalNiveshak.com
What's The Greatest Fear Today? The Lack of Fear
James Rickards Daily Reckoning
The Money Battle Outside the Happiest Place on Earth
Daniel Miller LA Times
The Amount of Energy from a Bitcoin Transaction
Christopher Malmo Motherboard
A Look Inside China's Massive and Remote Bitcoin Mines
Johnny Simon Quartz
Monday, November 6
Willful Blindness On Left to Trump Economic Boom
Stephen Moore Washington Times
Why We Haven't Had Much Inflation, & Why We Won't Have Much
Ken Fisher USAT
We'll Soon Have a New Fed Chair: Who Is Powell?
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Trump's Tax Cuts Push Us To a Putin-Style Oligarchy
Eric Levitz New York Magazine
That Rich Need Cuts Least Is Why Their Tax Must Be Cut Most
John Tamny Forbes
The Proposed Republican Tax Bill Deserves to Die
David Leonhardt New York Times
Digging Into the Details of Trump's Tax Reform Plan
Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg View
The Most Important Things Are Still In the Republican Tax Bill
Nathan Lewis Forbes
The New Puerto Rico-Style Implications of Coal's Revival
Emily Atkin New Republic
To Win Amazon's 2nd HQ, Cities Should Abandon Secrecy
Nathan Jensen USA Today
Venezuela Collapse Shows Why We Need Museum of Communism
J.T. Young IBD
Another Error That Could Needlessly Drive Up Housing Costs
Allan Golombek RCM
Grantham Predicted the Last Two Corrections, What Now?
John Coumarianos WSJ
Why a Stampede Into Stocks May Just Be Getting Started
Sue Chang MarketWatch
The Yield Curve Doesn't Seem to Be Buying Into All The Optimism
Tad Rivelle TCW


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