RealClearMarkets Week of February 24, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 24
American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, Wages Haven't Stagnated
Scott Winship Civitas
As Texas Urbanizes, Why Is a BBQ Feud So Important?
Rachel Monroe New Yorker
So-Called ‘Bidenflation’ Is What Happened After ‘Bidenflation’
John Tamny Forbes
DEI Initiatives Come & Go, But Profits Are Forever
Jeff Sommer The New York Times
U.S. Stocks Have Trounced World: Risks to Exceptionalism
Dambisa Moyo Barrons
David Solomon's Job Is Secure, Thanks to Trump
Charles Gasparino New York Post
401k Plans Are More Available, Why Aren't We Using Them?
Daria Solovieva Salon
Musk May Be the One to Separate Trump from Working Class
Brad Bannon The Hill
Why Are Republicans Suddenly In a Panic About DOGE?
Rafi Schwartz The Week
Republicans Can Still Cut Spending With Small Majorities
Chris Pope City Journal
Inadvertent Costs of Capping Rates on Credit Cards
Ike Brannon RealClearMarkets
Where Was '60 Minutes' When Rust Belt Jobs Cut?
Salena Zito Washington Examiner
Say No To Iran & Its Economically Corrupt Rulers
Struan Stevenson RealClearMarkets
Behold Me, President Trump's Preferred Version of Man
Rex Huppke USA TODAY
Steel N. Robb To Niece Molly On 'Getting Ahead' In D.C.
Rob Smith RealClearMarkets


Tuesday, February 25
Populist Poseurs Won’t Help Families
Richard Vigilante & George Gilder Next Am. Century
One Day, or a Week, Doesn't Make a Mkt Trend
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
President Trump Wants the Dollar to Be Both Mighty, and Weak
Benn Steil Barrons
Contra the Experts, the 'War On Inflation' Is All Over With
Ken Fisher New York Post
GOP Wants Trump Budget Leadership, He's Not Interested
Steve Benen MSNBC
Why Is Musk Being So Stingy? Return 100% of DOGE Savings
John Tamny RCM
'Macroeconomics' Legitimizes More Gov't Intervention
Reuven Brenner Law & Liberty
Tariffs Won't Bring On the "Golden Age of America"
Aidan Grogan RealClearMarkets
Lina Khan Stayed Too Long At, Did Too Much at FTC
Charles Sauer RealClearMarkets
Exponential Growth Sneaks Up On You, Then It Explodes...
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
Apple's DEI Program: One of the U.S.'s Nine Worst?
Stefan Padfield RealClearMarkets
It Would Be a Mistake To Bet ESG & DEI Are Defeated
Samuel Gregg Civitas Institute
Taking Away Rights Won't Enhance Child Safety
Juan Londono RealClearMarkets
Warming Denial Ruins Friendships: It's Worth It To Believers
Matthew Rozsa Salon
1-In-3 Americans Distrust Claims of Global Warming
Terry Jones Issues & Insights
What Retirement Account 'Rothification' Means
Kate Stalter U.S. News & World Report


Wednesday, February 26
Trump Is Already Surpassing 1st Term Cuts In Gov't Waste
Mick Mulvaney The Hill
DOGE Chaos Threatening to Destroy Trump Administration
Zeeshan Aleem MSNBC
Elon Musk Is "Shredding" Government? Not Even Close
Editorial Issues & Insights
Team Trump Should Tone Down Job-Cutting Triumphalism
Editorial New York Post
Russell Vought Might Be Quite a Bit Worse Than Elon Musk
Molly Olmstead Slate
President Trump Wants to Ban DEI, But Americans Want It
Eboo Patel USA Today
Should Conservatives Play ESG Politics?
Paul Mueller & Thomas Savidge RealClear
DeepSeek's Rollout: Powerful Instigator of AI Progress
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
John Deere Is Right, Lina Khan and IL/MN AGs Are Wrong
Benjamin Zycher RCM
Now's the Time for Los Angeles To End Single-Family Zoning
David Youngberg FEE
What do Trump-Supporting Farmers Think of Tariffs, DOGE?
Joel Mathis The Week
Thanks to Trump for Ending the Double Taxation of Expats
James Carter Newsmax
The 2026 Soc. Security COLA Forecast Looks Bad
Trevor Jennewine The Motley Fool
The NYC/London Gold Arbitrage
Joakim Book American Institute for Economic Research
'Carried Interest' Isn't Income, and Shouldn't Be Taxed Like It
John Tamny RealClear


Thursday, February 27
About Wills, Millennials, GenX & Boomers Don't Much Agree
Mallika Mitra Barrons
Do You Qualify For Social Security's Highest Payment?
Matt Frankel The Motley Fool
Trump Saving New York From Its Leaders
Diana Furchtgott-Roth Heritage Foundation
On Congestion Pricing, Kathy Hochul Should Keep Cool
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
Books: Philip Gefter's Spectacular 'Cocktails wGeorge & Martha'
John Tamny RCM
Exposing Absurdities In Government, DOGE Is Working
Ingrid Jacques USA Today
Trump Inflationary Policies Make American Expensive Again
Sen. Chris Coons Fox
What to Know About Tax Filing As the IRS Sheds Workers
Tara Siegel Bernard NYT
The SBA: Failed Experiment That Should Be Shut Down Now
Gene Marks The Hill
It's Time For a New Direction At the U.S. Postal Service
Peter Roff RealClearMarkets
The CFPB's Aim Is Ultimately To Control Your Wallet
Alex Rosado RealClearMarkets
Companies like GM, Boeing Quietly Dismantling DEI
Lydia Moynihan New York Post
Bud Light Shifts to Profit After ESG Backlash Cost Billions
Richard Morrison AIER
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's 'MAGA-Masculinity' Crisis
Jon Skolnik Vanity Fair


Friday, February 28
Don't Invest Based On What Politicians Say, or Might Do
Markets Fisher Investments
A Case for the S&P About to Break Out, or Break Down
Jeff Remsburg InvestorPlace
Alarmists Can Relax, Debt and Default Already Priced
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Musk Is the World’s Richest. Why Is He Sleeping On Office Floor?
Erik Baker NYT
The Full Truth About the Good That DOGE Can, Cannot Do
David Bahnsen Fox News
Trump Doesn't Need a Pep Rally To Peg the Dollar To Gold
Vlad Signorelli RealClear
Musk Is Slashing Trump's Popularity, Not Workers
E.J. Montini The Arizona Republic
A Budget That Slashes Medicaid to Pay for Trump's Tax Cuts
Russell Payne Salon
Jeff Bezos Triggers the Enemies of Freedom & Markets
Editorial Issues & Insights
To Grow Rich Is Powerfully Important In Vietnam
Rainer Zitelmann RealClearMarkets
Thick Pall Clouds CA Fire's Funding Recovery
Ana Kasparian RealClearInvestigations
The Horrors of Trump's Potential Postal Service Privatization
Ray Brescia MSNBC
The Low-Profile Trump Insider Officially Leading the DOGE
Rafi Schwartz The Week
A Big Housing Correction Looms?
Peter Earle American Institute for Economic Research
To Preserve Academic Freedom, Don't Tax Endowments
Erik Jensen Civitas Institute
Saturday, March 1
What Happens When Intelligence Is Abundant & Cheap?
Azeem Azhar Bloomberg
The Wall Street-Main Street Disconnect
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
A New Growth Model For Europe?
Kate Mackenzie Phenomenal World
New Yorkers Are Very, Very Different From You & Me
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The US Is Shutting A Door To The World
Marc Chandler Barrons
Zelensky Got What He Deserved After His Obnoxious UN Stunt
Rob Smith RCM
How A Ruling On The NLRB Could Affect The Fed
Peter J. Wallison AEIdeas
The Meaning And Risks Of "Audit The Fed"
Nicolas Cachanosky The Daily Economy
Why Investors Should Worry About Trump & Impoundment
Gillian Tett FT
The Broken Economic Order
Mariana Mazzucato Foreign Affairs
Don Trump's Mafia Like Struggle For Global Power
The Economist The Economist
How Mexico/Canada Tariffs Would Hurt US Energy Sector
Scott Lincicome Cato
The Unsafe AI That Wants Elon Musk to Die
Kelsey Piper Vox
Canada & Mexico Tariffs Are Bad Policy - And Unpopular
Eric Boehm Reason


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