RealClearMarkets Week of May 4, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 4
Does Warren Seriously Believe "Stagflation Is In the Air"?
Editorial Issues & Insights
Why the AI Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won’t Happen
Ezra Klein The New York Times
Musk's "Universal High Income" Serves Tech, Not Workers
Brian Hamilton The Hill
The New Fed May Cut Rates, Though Without Much Rate Impact
Cory Frank RCM
Fed As Inflation Fighter Is Rooted In Phillips Curve Mysticism
John Tamny Forbes
BlackRock's Rick Rieder Believes Econ. Is Recession-Proof
Emily Russell Barron's
Why Bari Weiss's CBS News Overhaul Isn't Going Very Well
Zeeshan Aleem MSNBC
What the Tax Code Rewards, & Why Most Have It Backwards
Jay Rogers RealClear
Are You Planning to Work In Retirement? Don't Count On It
Daniel de Visé USAT
How To Become a 'Lazy Millionaire' In Your Retirement
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Worth of $10K Invested In Meta IPO Shares
Wayne Duggan U.S. News & World Report
Bank Regulatory Rules Perilously Bereft of AI Guidance
Richard Roberts RealClear
The U.S. Economy Is Better Than You Think It Is
Charles Gasparino New York Post
Anthropic's IPO Rush Runs on Narrative, Not Numbers
Ike Brannon RealClearMarkets


Tuesday, May 5
California Wealth Tax Will Backfire With Lower Revenue
Jared Walczak City Journal
RCM/TIPP Index Steadies In May As Stress Eases
Raghavan Mayur RealClearMarkets
The Yuppies Made a Meritocracy. Let's Unmake It
Dylan Gottlieb The New York Times
What the Trade Data Say About Trump Reindustrialization
Peter Navarro RealClear
Data Center Panic Gets Electricity Prices Wrong
Julia Cartwright The Daily Economy
The Much Bigger Gov't In Rand Paul's "Six Penny" Budget Plan
John Tamny RCM
"Boring" Cos. That Are Nvidia Crucial to the AI Buildout
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
The Prices for Lots of Things Will Wind Up Looking Silly
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra
CA Lectures U.S. On Sustainability, While Running Out of Gas
Richie Greenberg CP
Uber Wants To Be So Much More Than a Rideshare App
Justin Klawans The Week
Is Dave Ramsey '25% Mortgage Rule' Even a Possibility?
Maurie Backman U.S. News
Bill That Would Result In Us Losing Our Credit Card Rewards
Yael Ossowski RCM
Regulators Risk Harming Local TV w/Nexstar/Tegna Block
Steve Forbes Fox News
The Hospitality Realty Inflection Point, and the Meaning of 2026
Russ Flicker RCM
Team Trump Doesn't Want You to Know Why Spirit Imploded
Steve Benen MSNBC
Spirit's Crash: How Warren and Buttigieg Killed Cheap Flights
Jay Rogers RealClear


Wednesday, May 6
Investment Strategies for People Afraid of the Market
Philip van Doorn Marketwatch
Not So Fast TX. This Non-NYC City Manages Just As Much
Andy Serwer Barron's
Delivering a Bipartisan Bill to Solve Our Housing Problem
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Hill
The Return Isn’t Money, It’s Affordable Housing
Conor Dougherty The New York Times
The Message Isn't More Housing Supply, It's Don't Own a Home
John Tamny RCM
Trump’s Middle East Energy Wins Vivify Our Dominance
Victoria Coates Fox News
Uncle Sam’s Spending Dooms Our Kids’ Economic Future
Editorial New York Post
How Blue States Go From Rent Seeking to Rent Losing
J.T. Young RealClearMarkets
Republicans Do $1B About Face on "Private" Trump Ballroom
Steve Benen MSNBC
With Spirit, Antitrust Imagined An Economy That Didn't Exist
Mark Jamison RCM
Exposing Great Global Warming Grift and the Lying Cabal
Editorial Issues & Insights
Parents and Tech Cos. - Not Gov't - Must Protect Children
Charles Sauer RealClear
The Retirement Setback Americans Fear More Than Death
Daniel de Visé USAT
Will the Trump IRA Really Help the Working Class To Retire?
Joel Mathis The Week


Thursday, May 7
What SpaceX’s IPO Says About U.S. Capital Markets
Julia Cartwright Civitas Institute
How Investors Should Play the SpaceX and Open AI IPOs
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
AI's Potential Is a Signal That This Isn't Your Dad's Internet Mania
Mark Kerr RCM
If "Drill Baby, Drill" Is So Great, Then Why's Oil So Expensive?
David Jenkins The Hill
The Theatrical Release of "Narnia" Restates the Netflix Case
John Tamny RealClear
Trump's Federal Workforce Reforms About More than Headcount
Judge Glock CJ
Spirit Demise Will Be Felt by Americans Who Never Flew It
William McGee MS NOW
Don't Be Misled, D.C. Regulators Broke Spirit Airlines
Stefan Barti The Daily Economy
Opposite the CW, We’ll Miss OPEC When It’s Gone
Jason Bordoff The New York Times
To Retirees, Here's What a Warsh Fed Could Mean for You
Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's
Inconsistency From the FDA Has Become a Huge Tax
Anthony LoSasso RealClear
Will Trump Give Would-Be Home Buyers Relief?
Jon Decker Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Victory for Capitalism, Common Sense In California
Paul Steidler RealClearMarkets
Why Hochul Insists on Blaming Trump for New York’s Woes
Editorial New York Post


Friday, May 8
Disastrous Global Warming Scenarios That Didn't Happen
Editorial Issues & Insights
The World Refuses to Acknowledge Global Warming Threat
William Becker The Hill
April Jobs Report Beats Models and Pessimists Once Again
Peter Navarro RCM
Some Context About All the Debt to GDP Nailbiting
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Ray Dalio On How to Prevent Our Debt "Heart Attack"
Ross Douthat New York Times
Nothing About Being Born In the U.S. Makes You a Victim
John Tamny RealClear
AOC’s Data-Center Performance: Wrong on Every Level
John Stossel New York Post
The Economic Lesson From Cheaper Weight-Loss Drugs
David Goldhill City Journal
Why We're Dying, Why Libertarianism Can Reverse It
Walter Block RealClearMarkets
The Meaning of $100,000 Soc. Security Cap
Jenna Romaine U.S. News & World Report
Unable to Tax Local Tech, the EU Targets U.S. Giants
James Erwin RealClearMarkets
Unemployment Checks Are at 21-Year Low. Here's Why
Jeffry Bartash Marketwatch
The Importance of Amazon's Globalstar Purchase to Growth
Johnny Kampis RCM
Is Trade State of Play In North America at a Breaking Point?
Joel Mathis The Week
Why AI Battle Is Being Lost In the File Cabinet
Chris Grottenthaler RealClearMarkets
Cost of CA's High Speed Rail Goes Up Again
Kerry Jackson Fdn for Economic Education
Saturday, May 9
Why It's So Hard To Spot A Stock Market Bubble
Jason Zweig Wall Street Journal
The Danger of The AI Giants' Circular Deals
Jacob Robbins Morningstar
No One Is Lazy or Stupid, There's Just Not Enough Growth
John Tamny RealClear
The Man Trying To Make Trump's Tariffs Go On Forever
Daniel Desrochers Politico
Global Conflicts Give Rise to Looming Food Shortage
Ike Brannon RealClearMarkets
Meta Is Finally Dying. It’s About Time.
Julia Angwin The New York Times
Ted Cruz & Brian Schatz Want To Be Our Nannies
Norm Singleton RealClearMarkets
David Sacks, The Venture-Capital Populist
George Packer The Atlantic
Trump’s China Trap: Why Xi Keeps Winning
Michael Kovrig Foreign Affairs
The Old Guard: Confronting America's Aging Crisis
Samuel Moyn Harper's Magazine
The Trump Government Funded IRA Misses The Point
Veronique de Rugy Reason
Fed Independence:Jerome Powell’s Finest Hour
Desmond Lachman Project Syndicate
Say Hello to the Internet of AI
Om Malik On my Om



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