RealClearMarkets Week of July 16, 2018 Archives

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Monday, July 16
Jack Welch Built Great Company, His Successors Wrecked It
John Byrne USA Today
Critics of Starbucks' Straw Ban Are Missing the Point
Emily Atkin The New Republic
Summer Reads: 11 Great Books On Investing, Work and Tech
Ken Fisher USA Today
Trade War and $247T Debt Are a Dangerous Mix
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Kylie Jenner Explodes Debt, Demographic & Inequality Theory
John Tamny Forbes
Policies to Consider to Achieve Lower Drug Prices
Stephen Moore Washington Times
Americans Are Feeling Better About Economy Under Trump
Jonathon Trugman NYP
In a Tight Labor Market, Retirees Fill In a Wide Gap
Claudia Dreifus New York Times
Don't Fix Baseball, Let Market Forces Work Their Magic
George Will National Review
Let Retirees Retire w/o Paying for 'Virtue Signaling'
Sean DiSomma RealClearMarkets
Balanced Funds Don't Inspire Fear, Greed. It's Why They're So Useful
Tim Gray NYT
Bull Market Snorts Past One Obstacle After Another
Mark DeCambre MarketWatch
Export/Import Bank Doesn't Make America Great
Diane Katz & Veronique De Rugy IBD
Argentina Is Still Paying for Peronism
Lawrence Reed Foundation for Economic Education


Tuesday, July 17
The Fed's Defense of IOER: 4 Questions for Chairman Powell
Norbert Michel Forbes
There's Never An Excuse for Protectionism, So Stop Excusing It
John Tamny RCM
Why Buying Gold Now Could Weigh Down Your Portfolio
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
About Fossil Fuels, Governments Speak With Forked Tongues
Fuhr & McKinnon PS
The Rising Politics of Rent That Is Too Darn Expensive
Sarah Jones The New Republic
Rule of Law Requires That We All Abide Same Laws
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Would You Want Amazon's Second Headquarters In Your City
Karen Yuan Atlantic
Corporate Welfare for Politically Connected Is a Bipartisan Thing
Doug Bandow IBD
On Prime Day, How AMZN Feeds Your Fear of Missing Out
Michael Solomon Fortune
Lounge Wars Heat Up as Airlines Fight for High-End Passengers
Jane Levere NYT
Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?
John Lanchester The New Yorker
As the Economy Grows, Work Becomes a Lot More Fun
Gary Goldman The Daily Wire


Wednesday, July 18
Trump's Economy Great for Billionaires, Not Working Families
Bernie Sanders USAT
Dems' Lurch Toward Sanders' Socialism Has Been Years In Making
Editorial IBD
We Still Haven't Learned Milton Friedman's Lessons About Trade
Mark Perry FEE
The Republican Party's War On Poorest Americans
Paul Krugman New York Times
Janus Protections Should Also Include Private Sector Workers
Richard Berman WE
Stocks Are Overpriced: 3 Metrics to Show Just How Overpriced
Bill Baldwin Forbes
How to Prepare for a Big Surprise In the Stock Market
Jeff Sommer New York Times
The Big Family Ownership Dramas That Roil The NFL
Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated
How Trump's Tax Bill May Have Caused Dip in MLB Ticket Sales
John Crudele NYP
Banning Styrofoam Is a Wasteful Way to Soothe the Left
Jeff Stier National Review
Despite the Glitches, Shoppers Just Can't Quit Amazon
Alana Semuels The Atlantic
California's Endless Efforts to Keep 'Net Non-Free
Johnny Kampis American Spectator
Facebook Can't Fix Politics Problem, and Doesn't Want To
Brian Feldman New York 
How to Protect Workers Without Issuing Trade Tariffs
Robert Shiller Project Syndicate


Thursday, July 19
Investors Can Use Yield-Curve Myths On Way To Good Gains
Michael Cannivet RCM
The U.S. Bond Market Is 'Coiling' Ahead of a Violent Surge
Sunny Oh MarketWatch
Why Real Wages for Americans Still Are Not Rising
Jared Bernstein New York Times
Rather Than Listen to Economists on Pay, Use Common Sense
John Tamny RCM
Talking Frugality, the GOP Presides Over Earmark Explosion
Tom Schatz USA Today
Bethenny Frankel On Going from Money Insecure to Rich
Molly Triffin MarketWatch
On His Birthday, Some Interesting Facts About Steve Forbes
Daniel Lippman Politico
How the NFL's Most Powerful Owners Achieved Status
Albert Breer Sports Illustrated
4-Day Workweek? Test Run Shows a Surprising Result
Charlotte Graham-McLay NYT
NFLX Was Great Disruptor,Will It Now Be Disrupted?
Stephen Zeitchik Washington Post
Europe's Record Breaking Fines for Google May Signal a Trend
Ian Bogost Atlantic
More Regulations Don't Spur More Innovation
Alan McQuinn & Daniel Castro Examiner
Let the Coming Wars Over Welfare & Work Begin
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
"Guaranteed Income" Would Undermine Social Virtues of Work
John McGinnis FEE
How Long Will It Take Future Retirees to Save First 100K?
Christy Bieber Motley Fool


Friday, July 20
Retaliating Against Them, We Shoot Selves In Foot
Walter Williams Creators Syndicate
President Trump's Trade War Is Unjustified and Very Unfair
Cui Tiankai USA Today
China: Friend or Foe? John Tamny vs. Stephen Moore
Adam Brandon FreedomWorks
The Damage Imposed on Intl Trade by Trump Will Take Years to Fix
Peter Coy BBW
Against Student Lending: Weak Students Should Pay More
Bryan Caplan Newsweek
A Case Against Revealing Salary to Future Employers
Bryce Covert The New Republic
Financial Markets Seem Unsure How to Price Inward Shift
Byron Wien Blackstone
Thoughts on Where to Invest When This Bull Market Ends
Matthew Heimer Fortune
In Your 40s With No Retirement Savings? What to Do
Maurie Backman Motley Fool
Can Guyana Handle Being Locale of Next Oil Boom?
Clifford Krauss New York Times
Janus Decision Won't Break the Unions, But It's a Start
Steven Greenhut The Spectator
EU's $5B 'Antitrust' Fine On Google Is Really Just Protectionism
Editorial Investor's 
Ten Years Later, There's Still No Economic Recovery
Jeffrey Snider RealClearMarkets
Kylie Jenner Didn't Build That? Of Course She Didn't
Ann Friedman Los Angeles Times
As They Gain More Power, Female NFL Owners Change Narrative
Jenny Vrentas SI
Saturday, July 21
Great American Melt-Up. No, We’re Not Stagnated
James Pethokoukis Commentary
How Consumers Can Resist Companies’ Market Power
Austan Goolsbee NYT
Why Do Republicans Hate Consumers?
Catherine Rampell The Washington Post
The Myth of Federal Reserve Independence
Mark Thoma Milken Institute
Nationalism, Immigration, and Economic Success
Jason Furman Project Syndicate
Sometimes, It Pays off to Sweat the Small Stuff
David Brooks The New York Times
Credit Ratings Agency Offers Dim Outlook for Rural America
Bill Lucia Route Fifty
How Closures of Newspapers Increase Government Costs
David Wessel Brookings
Wells Fargo's Automated Wealth Management
Ethan Wolff-Mann & Beth McLean Yahoo
Netflix Teaches Market Economics the Hard Way
Editorial The Washington Examiner
How to Spend It: The Shopping List for the 1%
Andy Beckett The Guardian
Looking for Books: 11 Excellent Summer Reads on Work, Investing
Ken Fisher USA
Monday, July 23
Peter Thiel On Herd Behavior, Investment, and Trump's Genius
Florian Schwab DW
Overdone Focus On Yield Curve Ignores Global Nature of Credit
Ken Fisher USAT
For Those Fearful of the Bull's End, Some Warning Signs
Stan Choe Associated Press
The Right Makes Peace With FDR's Welfare State & New Deal
Kevin Williamson NRO
Immigrants Can Make the Economy and U.S. Stronger
Jason Furman MarketWatch
Internet Sales Taxes Are Economy-Sapping Domestic Tariffs
John Tamny Forbes
An Auto-Seinfeld Script Shows Why Robots Won't Replace Us
Allan Golombek RCM
The Rather False Promise of Economic Nostalgia
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
The Democrats Are Waging An Insidious War on Work
Steve Moore Washington Times
To Secure His Legacy, Trump Must Address Floating Money
Editorial New York Sun
A More Pessimistic Analysis of Trump's Economics
Tom Firey Economics & Liberty
Only Free Markets Will Save - And Strengthen - Healthcare
Steve Forbes Forbes
EU's $5B Fine Is Bad for Google, But It's Not the Money
Rita Gunther McGrath Fortune
Some Basic Retirement Planning Tips for 2018, Beyond
Matthew Frankel Motley Fool
Five Hours That Forced NFL to Rethink Its Anthem Policy
Conor Orr Sports Illustrated


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