RealClearMarkets Week of December 3, 2018 Archives

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Monday, December 3
Wild Cards Will Not Be Played, Meaning Higher Equity Prices
Byron Wien Blackstone
Want More Bang for Your 401(k) Buck? Demand Employer Match
Ken Fisher USAT
Why Employee-Owners Have a More Secure Retirement
Phillip Swagel Examiner
A Decade of Divergence for Bill Gross and Jeffrey Gundlach
John Coumarianos CW
With His Tariffs on China, Trump Happily Blinked
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
CEOs and Companies Prosper, But They Don't Care About Us
David Leonhardt NYT
Billionaire Growth: A Certain Sign of Wage Growth for Everyone
John Tamny Forbes
To Fix Poverty In the United States, Just Write Families Checks
Bryce Covert Nation
Why Donald Trump Must Declare War On Gov't Waste
Steve Moore Washington Times
Ryan Departs D.C. in a Blaze of Debt Fraudulence
Jonathan Chait New York Magazine
The Mythical Money Problem of Finding 'Right' Price for Gold
Nathan Lewis Forbes
Fed Must Remain Independent No Matter How Mad Trump Gets
Bruce Yandle IBD
Some Advice for Trump on Dealing With the Fed
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Don't Believe All the Emoting About a 'Death of Competition'
Robert Atkinson The Hill
The Most Coveted Jobs Offering Even Crazier Perks
John Aidan Byrne New York Post


Tuesday, December 4
There Is Too Little Progress Against Death and Taxes
Richard Rahn Washington Times
'News Flash' Is That No Major Damage Was Done at G-20
Susan Rice New York Times
G-20: Trump Took Another Big Step Toward Making America Great
Liz Peek Fox
On the Subject of Globalization, Dems & GOP Exchange Hats
Allan Golombek RCM
Abolish It or Not, Innovation Drives the Fed Toward Irrelevance
Jeffrey Tucker AIER
'You Just Pay For It': How Trump and Ocasio-Cortez Think Alike
John Tamny RCM
Tax Brackets '18: How They Impact Your Federal Tax Return
Paul Katzeff Investor's 
The Tax-the-Rich Delusion of the Democratic Left
Brian Riedl The Daily Beast
Mark Luckie on the 'Black People Problem' in Silicon Valley
Noah Kulwin New York 
Earlier Wins In the Markets Could Wreck 'Santa Rally'
John Crudele New York Post
What the Stock Market Selloff Tells Us About Future of Tech
Zachary Karabell Wired
Trump Stock Market Needs a Long-Term, Inflation-Adjusted Boost
Ryan Ellis WE
Righting General Motors Ship Will Take More Than Plant Closures
Steve Spear Hill
Last Month Americans Continued Their Ugly Breakup with Cars
Nathan Bomey USA


Wednesday, December 5
Riots In France Show Why a Carbon Tax Should Be a Non-Starter
Editorial Investor's
France's Fuel-Tax Protests Expose Limits of Macron's Mandate
Rachel Donadio TA
Trump Warns He's 'Tariff Man,' Spooking Investors
Matt Phillips & Alan Rappeport NYT
Bad News Piles Up For Investors, Some of Whom Threw In Towel
Thomas Kee MW
Economic Pressures Force Trump & Xi to Play Ball
Stuart Eizenstat & Anne Pence Hill
Bill Gates's Five Favorite Books of 2018 Cover a Wide Range
Lauren Debter Forbes
The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren't Satisfied w/Their Wealth
Joe Pinsker TA
What Robert McNair Did for Houston Cannot Be Minimized
Brian Domitrovic Forbes
Lame Duck Update: How Congress Tried to Streamline Regs
Wayne Crews Forbes
Jawdropping Losses Suggest That Uber Is Heading for Crash
Yves Smith New York
Between Boeing & Lion Air, We Have a Failure to Communicate
Editorial USA Today


Thursday, December 6
However You're Defining "Risk" In Market, You're Probably Wrong
Mark Hulbert MW
Despite Market Decline, Economic Outlook Strong Due to Trump
Andy Puzder Fox 
Searching for Meaning Behind Stock-Market Drop
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Bogle Has Discovered a Downside to Low Index Fees
Ike Brannon RealClearMarkets
Trump, and The Art of the Underwhelming Trade Deal
Alex Shephard New Republic
International Companies Are Part of America's Econ. Bedrock
Kathleen Savio RCM
How the Great Recession Hurt the Middle Class - Twice
Brad Hershbein Brookings 
Moving Corporate American From Risk to Reward
Stanley Litow Investor's Business 
Books: Can Kraft, Brady and Jones Keep NFL on Top?
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Trump's So-Called China 'Trade Deal': Mere Stay of Execution
Scott Lincicome RCM
ALL Markets are 'Sharing Economies'
Donald Boudreaux Am. Institute for Econ. Research
E-Mails Show Facebook Wanted Profits and to Beat Competition
Kevin Roose NYT
California's Mis-Managed Rail Line Is Fast Train to Failure
Connor Harris City Journal
Millennials Didn't Kill Economy. The Economy Killed Them.
Derek Thompson Atlantic


Friday, December 7
Why Donald Trump Might Be Right About Interest Rates
Peter Eavis New York Times
Making Sense of the Tax Revolt in France
Michael Brendan Dougherty National Review
Today's Leaders Don't Even Know Questions to Ask
Jeffrey Snider RealClearMarkets
This S&P 500 Chart Just Went From Interesting To Dangerous
Rob Isbitts Forbes
Some Advice On How to Keep Calm Amid the Market Plunge
Adam Shell USA Today
Amid a Stock-Market Correction, Boring Becomes Beautiful
Michael Cannivet RCM
It's Time to Rethink the Rather Outdated Two-Week Pay Cycle
Steve Barha Fortune
Biggest Threat in Postal Report Is to Rural Americans, Not AMZN
David Dayen TNR
The Icons and Innovators Who Have Changed the Business Landscape
Bloomberg
Does NFLX $100M 'Friends' Deal Mean End-of-Era for Online?
Stephen Zeitchik WP
Market Delivers Unique Small Business Financing Options
Christian Josi PJ Media
Trump Is Right That Renewable and Electric Car Subsidies Must End
Editorial IBD
Though It Was Once King, Coal Has Been Dethroned
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
To Make the United States Richer, Help the Poor Children
David Kirp New York Times
How 'I, Pencil' Truly Changed My Life
Tricia Beck-Peter Foundation for Economic Education
Saturday, December 8
Against Predictions Of Biggest Names In Finance, Bonds Rally
Nathan Vardi Forbes
What Dow Coming Close to 'Death Cross' May Mean for Stocks
Mark Hulbert MW
Trump's Two Favorite Econ. Metrics Are Failing Him
Heather Long Washington Post
Memo to Fed: Now Would Be a Good Time to Put Rate Hikes on Hold
Editorial IBD
Trump's Reelection Doesn't Hinge on a Recession
Alex Shephard The New Republic
The GOP Missed Best Shot on Keeping Spending-Cut Promise
Adam Brandon Hill
Ohio Town Promises to Stop GM From Leaving 2nd Time
Salena Zito New York Post
Taxpayers Always Lose Industry's Shell Game With Jobs
Editorial New York Times
Time to Start Asking Questions About the Proxy Process
James Copland Manhattan
The End of Laziness Is Paved With Robots & Automation
Bill Walton Bill Walton Show
Monday, December 10
How President Trump Can Avoid Bush #41's "One-Termer" Error
Stephen Moore WT
Trump Misunderstands That a Rising 'Trade Deficit' Is Good
Allan Golombek RCM
Arresting Huawei Exec: Idiotic Way to Keep Chinese In Check
Zachary Karabell WP
Federal Reserve's Long History of Bowing to Presidential Pressure
Scott Burns FEE
Tis' the Season of Gifts: Here Are the Best Investment Books
Ken Fisher USA Today
Investors Are Overreacting to Overdone Economic Fears
Gad Levanon MarketWatch
Market Experts Call for Calm, Tell Investors Not to Bail Out
Gregory Bresiger NYP
The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last?
Robert Shiller NYT
North Korea's 1990s' Famine Tells a Useful Immigration Story
John Tamny Forbes
Who Pays for a Carbon Tax? The Problem Is No One Knows
William Shugart The Hill
Did Facebook Cause the Gilet Jaunes Riots in France?
Max Read New York Magazine
Cory Booker's Baby Bonds Subsidy Wouldn't Support Savings
Ryan Bourne Examiner
Even As Job Market Cools a Bit, Outlook Remains Stellar
Stephen Stanley The Hill
Do You Hate Amazon? Just Try Living Without It
Nona Willis Aronowitz New York Times


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