RealClearMarkets Week of January 5, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 5
Does the End of Maduro Signal End of Venezuela's Socialism?
Rainer Zitelmann TH
Everything's a Gamble: Prediction Markets Spread to Politics
Devika Rao The Week
Slower Progress Since '71? Floating Dollar Begs for Attention
John Tamny Forbes
Important Things That Investors Re-Learned In '25
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Wall Street Sees Another Banner Year for Markets
Bernhard Warner New York Times
Calls to Weaken Dollar: The Stuff of Econ Ignorance
Robert Singer RealClearMarkets
Mamdani's "Warmth of Collectivism” Comes to City Hall
Adam Lehodey City Journal
Mamdani Is Defying Expectations About Millionaire Exits
Zeeshan Aleem MS NOW
Mamdani Fibs About NY Rich Who Already Pay All the Bills
Editorial New York Post
Who Wins When the IRS Stops Enforcement?
Anne Zimmerman & Nikki Rohloff The Hill
Truth Is the Best Weapon In the War on Woke Insanity
Rob Smith RealClearMarkets
No More Excuses: You Can't Rely on Savings to Build Wealth
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
Contemplating Tough Labor-Market Conditions for U.S.- Men
Robert Cherry RCM
Tenuous Finances: Why Starbucks Baristas Went On Strike
Sabina Aguirre MS NOW


Tuesday, January 6
3 Up Years May Seem "Frothy," But It's Perfectly Normal
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
I Don't Know What Will Happen. No One Does
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
Seven Numbers Poised To Shape Retirement In 2026
Mark Miller New York Times
Rude Awakening Awaits Investors In Month of January
Jacob Sonenshine Barron's
More Tax Revenue Is a Sure Path to Soaring National Debt
John Tamny RealClear
Easy Socialism: Mamdani Promises a No-Pain Order
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
The AI Boom Is Tailor-Made for the Texas Economy
Garrett Fulce RealClearMarkets
Venezuelans Celebrate Demise of Collectivism, NYCers Embrace It
Editorial I & I
Charting Path Out Of Australia's Economic Stagnation
Samuel Gregg Civitas Institute
Isaac Newton Knew Real Value of Money
Katrina Gulliver Fdn. for Economic Education
Fire Insurance Was Supposed To Protect Calif. It's a Wrecking Ball
Joy Chen NYP
Why MSFT's Three Mile Island Revival Will Never Happen
Neil Chatterjee The Hill
Make Drug Prices Great Again Sans Price Controls
Charles Sauer RealClearMarkets
The Cost of Inaction On Crypto Market Structure
Ryan Costello RealClearMarkets
'Re-Dollarization' Accelerates a New Hybrid Monetary Ecosystem
Geoff Ira Forbes


Wednesday, January 7
How Grantham Nearly Lost It All, Became Value Investor
Jeremy Grantham Barron's
Steve Moore, Larry Kudlow Owe Trump Straight Talk About Dollar
John Tamny RC
Who Wins From Trump’s Venezuela Oil Gambit?
Rebecca Patterson New York Times
Please Give the Oil to the Venezuelan People
Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity
Trump Should Tap Malpass to Chair Venezuela Econ. Advisory
Richard Rahn RCM
Viewing Venezuela Through Market-Oriented Lens
Market Minder Fisher Investments
How Governing Venezuela Could Trap the U.S. For Years
Robert Maginnis Fox News
Trump Serves Big Oil, Not Us
Damian Murphy & Allison McManus Center for Am. Progress
Why Bonds Look Like a Better Bet Over Stocks and Gold
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Worth of $10,000 Invested In Nvidia Shares 20 Years Ago
John Divine U.S. News
A Green Agenda Saps South African Industry
Lars Schernikau & Vijay Jayaraj RealClear
Want to Eliminate Fraud? 2/3 Shrink Federal Government
Editorial Issues & Insights
Politicians & Bureaucrats Give Us Artificial Economics
Mark Ross American Thinker
Adam Smith's 'Blueprint' For the American Economy
Jonathan Hartley Civitas Institute


Thursday, January 8
United States Has Most Progressive Tax System In the World
Adam Michel Cato
The Trump-Warren Economic Strategy With U.S. Housing
Editorial New York Sun
Why Big Tech Stocks More Attractive Than They Were
Philip van Doorn Marketwatch
Even Permabears Have Shares: Where Grantham Is Buying
Lauren Rublin Barron's
The Divide Between Consumer Sentiment and Data Isn't Troubling
Todd Bliman FI
If Xi Jinping Is All-Powerful, Then Why Do We Fear China?
John Tamny RealClear
Tony Dokoupil's CBS Debut Embarrassing In Unexpected Ways
Luke Winkie Slate
The Long, Fascinating Entanglement of U.S. and Venezuelan Oil
Caitlin Dewey Vox
Stock Trading by Congress Does Us No Good
Tim Roemer & Charles Boustany The Hill
Lucrative Venezuela Bets Trigger Insider Trading Scrutiny
Sydney Carruth MSNBC
Tests of the Federal Reserve Independence Intensify
Colby Smith New York Times
Fire Zohran Mamdani Tenant Advocate From Her Job
Kirsten Fleming New York Post
My Job Got DOGE'd — Donald Trump Didn't Go Far Enough
Thomas State of the Day
Tune Out the Panicked Voices of the Movie Industry Luddites
Norm Singleton RCM


Friday, January 9
Why Even Warren Buffett Couldn't Keep Beating Market
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
January Is Just a Month, Not a Market Indicator
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Trump Is About to Lose Control of the Economy
Jason Furman The New York Times
Auditing IRS: The Future of Government's Most Critical Agency
Bruce Willey RCM
Stock Trading Reps. Make a Mockery of Congress
Betsy McCaughey New York Post
Gargantuan Big Tech Investment Discredits 'Monopoly' Alarmism
John Tamny RC
Welfare Scandal Shows How Entitlements Crush the Am. Dream
Corey Brooks Fox
Donald Trump's Venezuela Strike Wasn't Only About Its Oil
Zeeshan Aleem MSNBC
Does CA Want To Be Part Of Nuclear Renaissance?
Kerry Jackson Issues & Insights
Trump Accounts Could Pave Way for Social Security Reform
Thomas Savidge L & L
Housing Not Just About Affordability, It's About Liquidity Too
Faisal Awwal The Hill
Trump’s Missed Opportunity on Housing Affordability
David Harsanyi The Examiner
Congress Must Close GENIUS Act's Stablecoin Loophole
Tomas Philipson RealClear
Trump Should Nominate Arthur Laffer As Fed Chair
Ralph Benko Washington Times
A Useful Antidote To Isolation In the Executive Suite
Mike Sharrow RealClearMarkets
Saturday, January 10
Next GDP Report Could Be Very Bad News For Democrats
Editorial Issues & Insights
Job Market Ends Another Woeful Year On Really Lousy Note
Steve Benen MSNBC
Trump Sets the Stage for Growth After Dismal Biden Years
E.J. Antoni Fox News
Big Job Losses AND Big GDP Growth Ahead for 2026?
Jeff Remsburg InvestorPlace
Elon Musk May Transform American Education Too
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
You May Not Get the 401k Tax Break That You Expect
Maurie Backman Motley Fool
Beating NY Taxpayer Donkey Won't Work
Jonathan Russo Jonathan Russo’s Newsletter
Humble Pie Is Becoming Humbler. Why Is Pizza In Decline?
Joel Mathis The Week
A Lot of Market Health Riding on Earnings Estimate Trend
Pat O'Hare Briefing.com
The Failures of Venezuelan Socialism Should Wake Mamdani Up
Liz Peek The Hill
Contra Trump, Landlords Are Not the Problem
Binyamin Appelbaum New York Times
'Donroe Doctrine': Smash Hit for Venezuelan Bonds
Charles Gasparino New York Post


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