RealClearMarkets Week of August 25, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 25
If Trump Economy Is “Booming,” Then It Doesn’t Need The Fed
John Tamny Forbes
Why the Fed's Long Pause May Extend the Market Rally
Frances Yue Marketwatch
Trump Should Be Up Front About His Social Security Intentions
Thomas Kahn NYT
Pres. Trump Learns How To Stand Tough on Trade w/China
Mitchell Silk Fox News
Why You Don't Want Trump Buying a Stake In Intel
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Tariffs Won't Break the Economy, Corporate Shakedowns May
Amar Bhidé Barron's
Cracker Barrel's Difficulties Indicate 'Woke' Is a Risk Factor
Charles Gasparino NYP
I'm a Legal Purist Who Loves the Law for What It's Intended To Be
Rob Smith RCM
Trump Got Little For Shrinking the U.S. Economy
Dan Hannan Washington Examiner
DEI Undermines Merit, Sows Division, & Weakens Companies
Stefan Padfield RCM
Should You Be Cheering Private Equity In Your 401k?
Joe Light & Bill Alpert Barron's
Social Security Insolvency Worries Are Overdone
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Here's Why the Majority of U.S. Business Owners Lean Right
Gene Marks The Hill
Grateful About All That We've Gained Over 50 Yrs.
Jeffrey Tucker Brownstone Institute


Tuesday, August 26
Enjoy the Bull Market While Others Worry About the USD
Ken Fisher New York Post
Powell Mimicked 'Three-Armed Economist' In JH
Joe Calhoun Alhambra Investments
Powell Gives the Market What It Wants, Not What It Needs
Randall Forsyth Barron's
California Is Billionaire Dense, Of Course It Has Lots of Debt
John Tamny RealClear
Cracker Barrel Changed Its Logo. Naturally MAGA Flipped
Hannah Holland MSNBC
When Washington Buys Intel, It Unfortunately Owns You Too
Wayne Crews Forbes
New Truck Shows Why Pres. Trump Won't Win Fight Against EVs
Umair Irfan Vox
Big Disconnect Between Economic Perception, Reality
Terry Jones Issues & Insights
The Louisiana Comeback Story
Jonathan Williams American Legislative Exchange Council
The Real Reason Americans Worry About Trade
Peter Goodman The New York Times
Trump Kills Banks' Excuse for Political Discrimination
Will Hild Washington Examiner
Letitia James's Zelle Lawsuit Will Not Stop Fraud
Yaël Ossowski RealClearMarkets
Stablecoins Will Change Your Life. You Just Don't Know It Yet
Zach Lindquist Hill
Some Retirees Will Find Social Security at 62 Vy. Unwise
Stefon Walters Motley Fool


Wednesday, August 27
Biden's Court-Packing Was Wrong, So Is Trump Fed-Packing
Merrill Matthews Hill
What the Fed, SCOTUS & Senate Must Do After Cook
Jason Furman New York Times
The Dems Naturally Make Cook Dust-Up Abt. Race
Tim Carney Washington Examiner
Trump Attacks Cook to Deflect Blame from His Own Errors
Kitty Richards MSNBC
NatCons, Free Cons & Right's Future: Peter Lipsett
Andy Walworth RealClearPolitics
Dear Right: the Universities Didn't Do It. Neither Did Hollywood
John Tamny RCM
A Case for President Trump's Intel Ownership Stake
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
Intel Already Has Lots of Problems. A U.S. Stake Won't Help
Adam Levine Barron's
It's Mistaken To Compare the AI Boom to the 2001 Bust
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
Do We Still Really Need Bureau of Labor Statistics?
G. Dirk Mateer RealClearMarkets
Why Chicago Is Possibly On the Verge of a Fiscal Collapse
Austin Berg City Journal
Entry-Level Ownership Going Away
Tobias Peter & Sissi Li American Enterprise Institute
I'll Take Steak n' Shake Over Cracker Barrel's Falling Quality
Nicole Russell USAT
Gavin Newsom Loves The Limelight, Dislikes Californians
Editorial Issues & Insights


Thursday, August 28
Trump’s Fed-Board Firing Comes With a Rising Rate of Risk
Editorial New York Post
Republicans at Least Used to Hate Gov't In Business
Bret Stephens New York Times
As Trump Whips Inflation, the Media Saddle Him with 'Sneakflation'
Editorial I & I
Lisa Cook Should Wisely Take the Money, and Run Fast
Brett Arends Marketwatch
Book Review: Ed Zwick's 'Hits, Flops & Other Illusions'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Cracker Barrel's Mea Culpa Is a Start, But Hopefully Not the End
Paul Batura Fox
Community Banks Don't Need Favoritism, They Need Relief
Alex Rosado RealClear
The Path Away from Tariff Uncertainty That Saps Ingenuity
Gary Shapiro RealClear
Trump's Trade War Has Unexpected Online Negatives
Ryan Teague Beckwith MSNBC
Fiscal Prudence No Longer Informs the Government
Alan Loncar American Thinker
How Government Built the American Dream House
Joseph Lawler The New Atlantis
Get Ready for Nuclear's Huge Comeback: Stephen McBride
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
Prices Tell Us What Is and Isn't Worth Doing
Tim Worstall Fdn. for Economic Education
California: Once-Invincible White Collar Economy Declines
Michael Bernick Forbes


Friday, August 29
Are We Better Off Economically Than We Were Year Ago?
Editorial Issues & Insights
China Critic In Trump Embraces Its State Capitalism
Steven Rattner New York Times
Mike Gallagher Imperils U.S. With Harvard Expulsion Demands
John Tamny RCM
Social Security Is No Longer 3rd Rail of U.S. Politics
Neal Freeman National Review
Thoughts on How Federal Debt Affects Your Investments
Coryanne Hicks U.S. News
We Should All Rage Against Dying of the Federal Reserve
Cornelius Hurley The Hill
Affordable Housing: 1 Change Needed
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde & Lee Ohanian Civitas
Trump's Immigration Policies Threaten U.S. Cities & U.S. Growth
Robert Krol RCM
A Case for AI As Solution to U.S. City Fiscal Challenges
Danny Crichton City Journal
The FDA Sides With Science, and Kids Are Safer For It
Glenn Ellis RealClearMarkets
The NFL Wants $25B by '27: How About Selling Romance?
Kofi Mframa USA Today
Congress Must Erect a Barrier Between FTC, Foreign Antitrust
Charles Sauer RCM
America's Pilots & Surgeons Pay Too Much In Taxes
Ryan Teague Beckwith MSNBC
Why Boomers Have More Money than Everyone Else
Allison Schrager Manhattan Inst.
Saturday, August 30
End of Laziness Will Run Roughshod Over Income Guarantees
John Tamny RCM
The Return Of The Great Moderation?
Marc Chandler Barrons
Everything That Could Go Wrong With The Intel Deal
Ashley Belanger Ars Technica
Putin’s New Cyber Empire
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan Foreign Affairs
Is Wall Street's Fear Gauge Too Low?
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
The Probability Machine
Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture
Banks vs Crypto: A Lobbying Civil War Breaks Out
Jasper Goodman Politico
Are We Doomed to Repeat Economic History?
Jane Shaw Stroup The Daily Economy
The Real Reason Americans Worry About Trade
Peter S. Goodman New York Times
Campus Crackdowns: Will Foreign Students Keep Coming?
Fiona Harrigan Reason
Cash Cow: Where All That ICE Cash Is Going
Kristine Phillips Farmers' Advance
20 Years: Mississippi's Long Recovery From Hurricane Katrina
Debbie Elliott NPR


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