RealClearMarkets Week of February 2, 2026 Archives

RealClearMarkets AM Update

Monday, February 2

Warsh Nomination Is One of Trump's Wisest Moves

Charles Gasparino New York Post

What Worries Me About Trump’s Warsh Pick

Catherine Rampell The New York Times

A Perception Gap With the U.S. Economy

Charity-Joy Acchiardo & G. Dirk Mateer RCM

If a Weak, "Trump Dollar" Is Inflationary, Then Biden's Was Not

John Tamny Forbes

China Has Withstood Export Restrictions That Only Hold U.S. Back

Adam Ereli RC

The Early Innings of Infrastructure Buildout In Space

Stephen McBride RiskHedge

Albert Gore's Two Decades Of Inconvenient Inaccuracies

Editorial Issues & Insights

AI Runs Over Media: Richard Miniter

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster Triggernometry

AI Could Improve Healthcare While Bringing Down Its Costs

Justin Leventhal RCM

Team Trump Crafts Future-Seeing Crypto Plan

Paul Atkins & Michael Selig Fox News

Minnesota's Big Corporations Don't Speak Up Enough Abt. ICE

Michael Hiltzik LAT

Though Not Much Implemented, Tariffs Have Had Impact

Barry Ritholtz Big Picture

The FTC Should Roll Back the Administrative State

Charles Sauer RealClearMarkets

Neither Men nor AI Concepts Are Angels: Supervise Them

Andy Hall Free Systems

We're Headed for Mass Unemployment & No One's Ready

John Mac Ghlionn The Hill

Tuesday, February 3

To Believe Warsh/USD/Gold Narrative Is Too Silly

Joe Calhoun Alhambra Investments

Why Gold Perhaps Plunged, & Why It Might Not Be Over

Mark Hulbert Marketwatch

Every Major Currency Appreciated Versus Dollar In '25

Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture

Tune Out All the Dollar Gloom. It's Not That Weak

Market Minder Fisher Investments

Warsh Could Be Just What the Federal Reserve Needs

Allison Schrager City Journal

Making a Case For the Federal Debt As a Stealth Tax On Us

Rachel Greszler The Hill

On the National Debt, Left & Right Sadly Become One

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

Stronger Personal Finances Boost February RCM/TIPP

Raghavan Mayur RCM

Warsh Fed Won't Lift Stocks. Blame Government Spending

Randall Forsyth Barron's

Magical No Way for Mamdani or Trump to Boost Econ

David Harsanyi New York Post

What $1 Million Retirement Nest Egg Really Gets You

Maurie Backman Motley Fool

Let Coinbase, Others Truly Compete With Banks for Deposits

Charles Calomiris RC

The Arguments Made by Coinbase and Others Don't Add Up

Tomas Philipson RCM

Stephen Ross, Ken Griffin Think FL Is Future

Michael de la Merced The New York Times

High Cost of Good Intentions, Credit Card Edition

Mike Croxson RealClearMarkets

President Trump Correct: We Need a 10% Credit Card Cap

Bernie Sanders Fox News