RealClearMarkets Week of December 8, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 8
Michael Dell Teaches Wise, Anti-Socialist Lesson
Hugo Gurdon Washington Examiner
Get Your Santa Rally Caps On, Then Ready For a Comedown
Avi Salzman Barron's
How the Best Investors Protect Their Wealth From Manias
Darius Dale Marketwatch
Strategy: Wall Street's Fav Stock, Biggest Error
Jed Graham Investor's Business Daily
Steve Rattner Fact-Checks Trump on Inflation, Affordability
Allison Detzel MSNBC
The Federal Reserve System Returns To Profitability
Paul Kupiec RealClearMarkets
Why Is Zohran Mamdani Ridiculed, Kevin Hassett Revered?
John Tamny Forbes
About That Retracted, Rather Alarmist Climate "Report"…
Editorial Issues & Insights
Federal Reserve's Policy Framework Is About to Be Shifted
Nicholas Sargen The Hill
John Lott Is Brilliant on Guns, Not So Much on Tariffs
Walter Block RealClearMarkets
They Can't Define the "AI Slop" That They Lament
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
How Red Tape Hamstrings Would-Be ‘Reshoring’
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Everybody in Hollywood Secretly Hates Netflix. Now What?
Sharon Waxman NYT
With Warner Bros., Don't Count Out the Ellisons Yet
Charles Gasparino New York Post


Tuesday, December 9
The Private Equity Moguls Presently Taking Over Wall Street
Andy Serwer Barron's
What Matters to Investors Going Into '26: Dan Steinhart Int.
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
How My Retirement Savings Are Betraying U.S.
Jonathan Hillman New York Times
The Investor Fear of Mania Is Frequently Well-Reasoned
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Global Warming Alarmists Giving In To Common Sense
Matt Ridley New York Post
Peter Bauer Would Understand the Danger of Balanced Budgets
John Tamny RCM
Trump's Handouts Put Billionaires First, and Americans Last
Svante Myrick The Hill
Are We Sleepwalking Toward Transhuman Future?
Brian Joondeph American Thinker
Via Rebecca Coggin, a Look Back To a Mannerly Past
Rob Smith RealClearMarkets
Why They Like Socialism: Things I Learned From My Students
Eric Patterson Fox
Senate Is Well Positioned to Tackle 'De-Banking' Issue
Jon Decker RealClearMarkets
Regulators Shouldn't Meddle w/Netflix's Warner Bros. Purchase
Sean Tinney RCM
U.S. Companies Are Paying a Vy. High Complexity Tax
Scott Lincicome The Dispatch
How We Can Overcome the Affordability Problem
E.J. Antoni The Heritage Foundation


Wednesday, December 10
We Can't Be Talked Into Feeling Great About Econ
Zachary Karabell The Edgy Optimist
Trump Is Cleaning Up Biden's Affordability Disaster
Larry Kudlow RealClearPolitics
On Affordability, Pres Trump Goes All In On Alternate Reality
Steve Benen MSNBC
Good 2025 Equity Returns Signal Risk for Retirees In '26
Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's
Lest We Forget, Blockbuster Twice Passed on Netlix
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
How AI Can Address the Affordability Challenge
Kevin Frazier & Adam Thierer The Hill
The Peterson Fdn.'s Remarkably Uninformed Debt Proposal
Bruce Thompson RCM
U.S. Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
The American Tort System Is Corrupt & Corrupting
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
Why the AI Excitement Is Unlike the Internet Boom
David Streitfeld New York Times
LeBron Shows Why Aging Employees Belong In U.S. Workforce
Gary Officer NYP
The Bank Secrecy Act Very Much Needs Modern Fix
Lillian Kriese RealClearMarkets
Rare Split At the Fed — And Why It Makes Sense
Matthew Schaffer The Daily Economy
Stop Recycling Plastic: It's Very Hazardous To Our Health
Editorial Issues & Insights


Thursday, December 11
We Can Only Wish We Were Living In Our "Gilded Age"
Brian Domitrovic Law & Liberty
The Democrats Must Focus On Economic Growth and Renewal
Jon Tester The Hill
Why the Stock Market Is Likely To Move Higher In 2026
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
62 Vs. 70 Social Security Debate Misses the Point
Market Minder Fisherinvestments
We Grasped the Absurdity of Social Security, Worked Around It
John Tamny RCM
How the New Tax Law Helps Retirees Slash Their Tax Bills
Karen Hube Barron's
Bringing the Majesty of Artificial Intelligence Down to Earth
Reuven Brenner RCM
When They Tell You Renewable Energy 'Saves' $$$
Norman Rogers American Thinker
Trump Tariffs Represent An Attempt to Achieve the Impossible
William Ford RCM
Trump's Job Is To Stay Focused On the Economy
Byron York Washington Examiner
Some of Worst-Run States Pay Legislators the Most
Steven Malanga City Journal
As AI Grows In the U.S., So Grows U.S. Affordability
Paul Steidler RealClearMarkets
The ‘Affordability Hoax’ Is a Trap for Pres Trump
Thomas Edsall The New York Times
Listen to the People, President Trump, They Feel Econ Pain
Editorial New York Post


Friday, December 12
In Face of Supercilious Disdain, Meredith Whitney Asked Why
Jeff Cunningham RC
How Will China's $1t Trade Surplus Change World Economy?
Joel Mathis The Week
If the Chinese Are Producing, the World Is Growing
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Why the Fed Rate Cut Won't Bring Down Mortgage Rates
Erika Giovanetti U.S. News
The Economy Doesn't Need Help From 'Tight' Fed
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Falling Oracle Shares Are Proxy For AI Angst
Andrew Ross Sorkin The New York Times
How Inflation Slowly Rendered the Penny Meaningless
Jon Hartley Civitas Institute
Newsom's ‘National Model’ for Homeless Is Wracked by Fraud
Ana Kasparian RCI
Trump's Voters Disagree With His "A++++" Economic Grade
Chris Hayes MS NOW
A 2026 Social Security Shock For Retirees to Consider
Christy Bieber Motley Fool
Warming Fear Drives Record Insurance Company Gains
Roger Pielke New York Post
To Enhance Affordability, Trump Must Team With Massie
Charles Sauer RealClear
Who Made Life In the U.S. Unaffordable? The Democrats
Editorial Issues & Insights
"Democratic Socialism": Yet Another Remake
Julieta Clara Fdn for Economic Education
Saturday, December 13
The End of Laziness Naturally Correlates With Falling Test Scores
John Tamny RC
Prediction Mkts. Mint Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
A Misread of Somali Poverty Led To the Welfare Scandal
Howard Husock Fox News
Don't Stop Tariffs That Are Weakening China Trade
Nicholas Phillips New York Post
Five Policy Proposals Meant to Enhance Affordability
Chris Talgo American Thinker
With the Economy Struggling, Trump Steps Up the Ugly Slurs
Brad Bannon The Hill
Trump’s Nuclear Renaissance Will Reverse NRG Decline
Editorial Issues & Insights
$12 Billion Bailouts Don't Accompany Booming Economies
Hayes Brown MS NOW
What Role Will Trump Play In the Battle For Warner Bros.?
Joel Mathis The Week
Cozying Up to Trump, David Ellison Plays a Dangerous Game
Steven Zeitchik NYT
Despite What You're Told, the Santa Rally Isn't Here Yet
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Follow Taylor Swift Away From Magnificent 7, To the Bleachers
Pat O'Hare Briefing


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