RealClearMarkets Week of December 1, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 1

The Courage to Do Nothing Is an Essential Skill for Investors

Steven Sears Barron's

Social Security Disability Needs New Data, Not New Policies

David Weaver RCM

Asking Seniors: Can You Retire On Social Security Alone?

Daniel de Visé USA Today

Donald Trump Has Blocked a Big IRS Grab For Power

Tudor Dixon RealClearMarkets

Cryptos Saw Trump As their Savior. Reality Set In

Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times

How Pres. Trump Can Fix What Ms. Pelosi Broke On Trade

Andrei Iancu Fox News

Apple’s iPhone Eviscerates Federal Reserve’s Phillips Curve

John Tamny Forbes

AMZN Spends Billions to Win Christmas. Stock Looks Cheap

Jack Hough Barron's

Needless Barrier Between Patients & High-Quality Care

Justin Leventhal RealClear

Glimmer of Hope About Artificial Intelligence & Joblessness

Adam Clark Estes Vox

AI Mania Talk Premature at Best, Wrong at Worst

Market Minder Fisher Investments

Striking at Legal and Conceptual Core of 'Woke AI'

Stefan Padfield RealClearMarkets

They All Talk Affordability & They All Make Same Mistake

Heidi Shierholz MS NOW

Mamdani Can Save NYC Public Housing w/the Private Sector

Howard Husock NYP

Tuesday, December 2

The Greatest Investing Tip I Took From Charlie Munger

Stephen McBride RiskHedge

Cybertruck, Tesla's 'Best Ever' Product, Has Been a Flop

William Gavin Marketwatch

California: The Answer to Alleged Federal Debt Riddle

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

The Cost of Trump's Bank Deregulation Could Be Catastrophic

Julie Siegel MSNBC

RCM/TIPP Econ. Optimism Index Brightens in December

Raghavan Mayur RealClear

DOGE Is Dead — Long Live Washington Boondoggles!

James Bovard New York Post

Trump Is Right To Expand On Immigrant Investor Program

Stephen Moore The Hill

Capitalism: Moral Force

Timothy Nash Gabriel Benzecry Bob Thomas Thomas Rastin RCM

Markets Roiled By Data-Center Snafu in Chicago Suburb

Doherty et al. Fortune

Extraordinary Results On a Rather Erratic Path

Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments

Energy Affordability Has Become Key Issue of '20s

William Murray RealClearEnergy

Solution to the Housing Affordability Problem? Marriage

Howard Husock Fox News

Chevron Is Gone, But Fight Against Overregulation Continues

Curtis Hill RealClear

It's Baffling That Seattle & NYC Chose Socialist Mayors

Ingrid Jacques USA Today

Congress's Next Kids' Online Safety Faces Same Problems

David McGarry RealClear

Wednesday, December 3

ACA Killed Insurance Companies, Threatens Recovery

Carl Schramm New York Post

GOP's War on Property Taxes Will Lose It the Suburbs

Aaron Renn New York Times

We Can Have the Coast Guard or Tariffs, Not Both

Casey Carlisle RealClearMarkets

I Was Wrong About Google, and That's Why I'm Bullish

Stephen McBride RiskHedge

A Spot-On Indicator Signaling the End of the Bull Market

Mark Hulbert Marketwatch

Is AI Becoming the Next "Too Big to Fail" Industry?

Mark Keenan American Thinker

Is Artificial Intelligence the Latest Internet Mania? Let's Hope!

John Tamny RCM

Who Will Be Trump's Choice for Federal Reserve Chairman?

Joel Mathis The Week

Socialism Is Popular, but Government Is the Problem

Rep Tom McClintock Examiner

Do Not Bail Out Another Unused City of Chicago Creation

Judge Glock City Journal

Don't Let Artificial Intelligence 'Workslop' Drag Your Co. Down

Gleb Tsipursky Hill

Trump Promised Relief, Americans Got Higher Bills

Aaron Wood & Abigail Hall RCM

Meaning of 50-Year Mortgage Debate

Julia Cartwright Am. Inst. for Economic Research

A Case for a New Floating Rate Treasury Note

Darrell Duffie & Donald Wilson Brookings