RealClearMarkets Week of February 9, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 9
Dow 50,000: Wall Street Keeps Misunderstanding Trumpnomics
Peter Navarro RC
DJIA at 50,000 Doesn't Mean Economy Is Healthy
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Amid Rising Layoffs, Falling Openings, Trump Offers Nothing
Steve Benen MSNBC
Trump's Dollar Doctrine: A Weak Currency, Strong Nation
Richard Torrenzano RCM
Setting Record Straight: New Fed Chairs Are Not Auto-Negative
Market Minder FI
What Happens When Investors Realize Tesla Is Robots
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
Warsh Will Soon Realize That Powell Was Never Vy. Powerful
John Tamny Forbes
Prediction Mkts.: Ethics of Betting on Bad News
Christopher Freiman Daily Economy
Opposite Amy Klobuchar, Big Business Isn't Inherently Bad
Lillian Kriese RealClear
How Scy Bessent Could Help Get Warsh Confirmed
Charles Gasparino New York Post
An Argument for Trump Accounts Reversing Socialist Tide
Jonathan Turley The Hill
Finance Industry Is a Grift. Start Treating It That Way
Oren Cass The New York Times
Are Trade Deficits An Emergency?
Jesse Richman & Howard Richman American Thinker
Small Businesses Hurt the Most by Minimum Wages
Peter Hansen RealClearMarkets


Tuesday, February 10
Robot Revolution's Real: Tesla, Hyundai and Other Ways to Play It
Al Root Barron's
Rather Than Chasing Yesterday's Winners, Buy Tomorrow's
Eric Fry InvestorPlace
Bitcoin's Slide Isn't a Market Panic. It's a Legitimacy Test
Michael Stinnett RealClear
Meet the Trump Economy, Same As Old One
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
National Debt Solutions That Don't Address Why There's Debt
John Tamny RCM
An Appealing Investor Story: Israel Is Growing Up
Richard Vigilante The Israel Test
Gold's Rising, Liberty Being Eroded
Richard Salsman Am. Institute for Economic Research
Oren Cass’s Unquenchable Appetite for Regulation
Michael Munger Civitas Institute
Securing a Healthier Future Through Generic Drugs
Sen. Rick Scott RealClearMarkets
Epstein Files: Sound & Fury, With Little Substance
Charles Gasparino New York Post
What Replaces the Deported Immigrant Workers? Not Us
Binyamin Appelbaum NYT
Time to Start Voting About Social Security Is Now
Maya MacGuineas Dallas News
No One Wants to Admit Real Reason for Corporate Layoffs
Gene Marks The Hill
Amid a Growing Economy, Is the U.S. In a Hiring Recession?
Joel Mathis The Week


Wednesday, February 11
Electric Vehicles: Biggest Boondoggle In Human History?
Editorial Issues & Insights
I Just Returned From China. We Are Not Winning.
Steven Rattner The New York Times
Beneath the Headlines: Real Story In the January Jobs Data
Peter Navarro RCM
Essential Truth That Activists Won't Tell About Fracking & Oil
Dan Doyle Fox News
Amazon & Google Crush 'Quarterly Capitalism' Myth
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Leaving CA, They're Turning Other States Blue
John Yoo & Linda Denno New York Post
Debit, Credit Card Price Controls Unfairly Hurt Minorities
Lisa L. Cole Martin RCM
Protecting Your Retirement Portfolio Amid Rapid Change
Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's
Important Steps To Max Out Your Social Security Benefits
Kailey Hagen Motley Fool
The Bond Market Flashing Perilous Investor Warning
Vivien Lou Chen Marketwatch
Starbucks Effect On An Emotionally Fragile Generation
Allan Feifer American Thinker
Oren Cass Only Shrinks Himself With His Attack on Wall Street
David Bahnsen NR
Is "Dating Recession" Really About Affordability?
Conn Carroll Washington Examiner
Washington Post Bloodletting Symbolizes the Media Crisis
Zeeshan Aleem MSNBC
Darkness Descends With Mass Layoffs at Washington Post
Aron Solomon The Hill


Thursday, February 12
Jobs Report Explains Why Dems Dislike Trump So Much
Editorial Issues & Insights
Bernie Sanders Balks at Trump's Delusional Econ Claims
Allison Detzel MS NOW
Why NetflixWBD Is a Combo Made In Competition Heaven
Thomas Hazlett Barron's
Another Dreaded Bear Market Predictor Not So Ominous
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
How to Better View the Dollar's Droop? Zoom Out
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Remembering Edward H. Crane, Co-Founder of the Cato Institute
John Tamny RC
Annually Tens of Thousands Are Leaving Blue States
Robert Smith American Thinker
Bank CEOs Oppose CLARITY Act, Savers Shouldn't
Grant Everist RealClearMarkets
Oren Cass Channels Inner Marxist With Wall St. Bashing
Judge Glock City Journal
Trump's Policies Contradict "Nation of Renters" Contempt
Matthew Goldstein NYT
Without Reform, Healthcare Will Swallow the Federal Budget
Norm Singleton RCM
Not So Golden: Misplaced Nostalgia About 1950s
John Cochrane Grumpy Economist
The Unsung Economic Boost Brought by Full Expensing
Patrick Gleason RealClear
Blocking the AI Information Explosion Hurts Everyone
Kevin Frazier Civitas Institute
What If AIs Set Out to Conquer World w/Love...?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds New York Post


Friday, February 13
Dow 50,000: 5 Reasons It Is a Feckless Milestone
Market Minder Fisher Investments
How Overconfidence Took Down $6.6 Billion Hedge Fund
Luke Lango InvestorPlace
Jan. CPI Extends Trump Disinflation - Rate Cuts Should Follow
Peter Navarro RCM
Mark Zuckerberg, & the Reverse Gold Rush From CA
Jonathan Turley California Post
How Better Federal Policy Can Create More Home Ownership
Brian Darling The Hill
To Boost Housing Stock, Let's Create More Cities
Conor Dougherty New York Times
Nosebleed Home Prices: A Brilliant Signal, Not a Call for Policy
John Tamny RCM
Growth Doesn't Factor Into CBO's Debt Alarm
Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity
A 10% Rate Cap Would Force AI Reckoning for Banks
Nitin Sethi RealClearMarkets
Donald Trump's 1st-Term Tariffs Crushed U.S. Manufacturing
Alan Reynolds Cato
Tough Decisions Await a Failure to Limit Healthcare Costs
Robert Cherry RealClear
A Much-Welcome Death of Manipulative Marketing
John Wechsler RealClearMarkets
AI's Energy Demands Fueling a Nuclear Comeback
Steven Taff Washington Examiner
Coal Industry Hands Trump Unnecessary, Made Up Award
Steve Benen MS NOW
Are Big Tech Corporations the Tobacco Companies of 21st?
Joel Mathis The Week
Climate Alarm On The Run: Reason at Last Abt Warming?
Editorial Issues & Insights
Saturday, February 14
Why A ‘K-Shaped’ Economy Makes Stocks Riskier
Sarah Hansen Morningstar
The Scourge of Online Sports Betting
Gabrielle Gurley The American Prospect
Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
Conor Dougherty The New York Times
Regardless of Stance, "Border" Insults Immigration Discussion
John Tamny RCM
L.A.’s “Mansion Tax” Hasn’t Worked as Intended
Shawn Regan City Journal
America and China at the Edge of Ruin
David M. Lampton & Wang Jisi Foreign Affairs
Why Capitalism's Beneficiaries Have Turned Against It
Sarah Wooten Quillette
NIMBY? Data Centers Face Hostile Communities
Ariel Wittenberg Politico
The Cowardice Of The Republican 'Tariff Skeptics'
Eric Boehm Reason
Pickleball's Plan to Become a Billion-Dollar Platform
Joe Pompliano Huddle Up
Can AI Overcome The Real Growth Bottlenecks
Adam Ozimek Agglomerations
Free Trade, Public Policy, Private Investment & Blueberries
Rhishi Pethe SFTW


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