RealClearMarkets Week of May 18, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 18
Don't Own the AI Big Spenders, Own the Check Cashers
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
The Market’s Winning Streak Is About to Be Tested
Joe Rennison New York Times
The $1,000 Trump Accounts Don't Match the Hype
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
Warsh Must Fight Inflation, and Keep Trump Happy
Charles Gasparino New York Post
Misread Signals: 1970s Inflation Bogeyman Isn't Back
Richard Roberts RealClear
Since When Do Conservatives Agree w/Lawrence Summers?
John Tamny Forbes
We Must Stop Treating "Crypto" As One Market
Danielle Zanzalari RealClearMarkets
Anti-Data Center Types Taking On Tech. & They're Winning
Robert Bryce Spectator
How the European Union's Tech Policy Threatens Consumers
David McGarry RCM
Amazon’s $1.8T Bet On America Did Not Happen By Accident
David Zapolsky WE
Chinese Espionage Steals $600B From U.S. Firms Yearly
Daniel Hoffman Fox News
Federal Court Jeopardizing NY's Financial Reputation
Michael Fragoso City Journal
It's Not Oil & Water: The Real Reason the U.S. Is In Iran
Asaf Romirowsky RealClear
Rural Communities Paying For Trump's War
Anne Knapke Center for American Progress


Tuesday, May 19
Spanberger's "Family Leave Act" Combines Bad Math With Emotion
Rob Smith RC
Include Fannie and Freddie In National Debt
Alex Pollock & Edward Pinto Law & Liberty
No Debt Denialism, Mitch Daniels, Just a Focus On Markets
John Tamny RealClear
Ted Turner, Last of Colorful Owners Has Left the Field
Will O'Toole American Thinker
They Say It's a Tax on Millionaires. It Won't Stay That Way
Julio Gonzalez RealClear
President Trump's Economy Is Failing the American People
Rep. Ro Khanna MSN
Class Warfare Is Smoldering In U.S., & Is About to Catch Fire
Austin Sarat The Hill
Investing Lessons From Indianapolis Speedway
Elisabeth Dellinger Fisher Investments
If the Consensus Is Wrong, Stocks Are Pricey
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
Nvidia Shares Rally Is Just Getting Started. The Stock Is Cheap
Al Root Barron's
The M&A Rebound Is Obscuring a Hidden Weakness
Jay Rogers RealClearMarkets
How to Stop Possible California Slide Into Socialism
Sam Mirejovsky California Post
Build More Houses, Don't Let Congress Pick Buyers
Vance Ginn RealClearMarkets
Basic Economic Principles Call For More U.S. Housing
Editorial The New York Times


Wednesday, May 20
Investors Haven't Been This Bullish Since 2021 'Meme'
Joseph Adinolfi Marketwatch
Capital Markets Require Protection From Elizabeth Warren
Phil Kerpen RealClear
Why Trump’s Stock Trades Are So Exceptionally Corrupt
Michael Cohen MS NOW
Why 4% Retirement Rule Is Now a 4.7% Retirement Rule
Daniel de Visé USA Today
Soc. Security Was Always Just a Tax. That's Why It's Not "Broken"
John Tamny RC
Is the Soc. Security 'Trump Bump' Good for Retirement?
Jenna Romaine U.S. News
This Midterm, American Dream Is On the Line
Joseph Ford Cotto American Thinker
In Musk vs. OpenAI, Real Winner was the Suit
Vanessa Friedman The New York Times
Is a Standard Renters Tax Deduction Truly That Crazy?
Sam Raus RealClearMarkets
Kevin Warsh: A Return of Friedman's Monetarism
Jon Hartley & Peter Ireland Barron's
Defending Javier Milei Against New York Times' Hostility
Walter Block RealClear
Billions Have Been Wasted On the UN's Climate Fibs
Jonathan Lesser New York Post
Hormuz Must Function As Infrastructure, Not Leverage
Ahmad Al Asady RealClear
Government Control of Chip Sales Has Obvious Downside
Stephen Moore Fox News


Thursday, May 21
You May Thank Yourself Later for Converting to a Roth
Maurie Backman Motley Fool
My Retirement Accounts Fail In the World I Actually Live In
Patrick Brenner RCM
How to Protect the Economy from Ghosts of 1979
John Cochrane Washington Post
Trump's Economy Is Failing One of His Crucial Voting Blocs
Allison Detzel MS NOW
Parsing the Residential Construction Data Through Fed Eyes
Peter Navarro RCM
Why's Everyone So Sure More "Housing Supply" Is the Solution?
John Tamny RCM
Investment Implications of Record Low Consumer Sentiment
Market Minder Fisher
Wall Street Is Pricing AI's Upside. Nobody Is Pricing This.
Luke Lango InvestorPlace
The Tricks Gov. Newsom Used to 'Balance' CA Budget
Bruce Bialosky California Post
Public Pension Boards Are Sacrificing Pensioners for Politics
Jay Rogers The Hill
Ride the Bull Higher While Working To Limit Your Exposure
Steven Sears Barron's
Ted Turner Was Elon Musk Before Elon Musk Was Elon Musk
Norm Singleton RCM
A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What Ivy League Can’t
Michal Leibowitz The New York Times
AI Should Support IRS, Not Completely Control It
Jamelle Nelson RealClearMarkets
Our Adversaries Fraudulently Using U.S. Banking System
David Maimon Fox News
Blame Crime, Not Walgreens, For Chicago Store Closings
Aidan Grogan City Journal


Friday, May 22
The Iran War Sounds The Death Knell Of Electric Vehicles
Editorial Issues & Insights
Spiking Treasury Yields Highlight Federal Spending Prob
Editorial Washington Post
Why Rising Yields Aren't Hurting the Stock Market...Yet
Jules Rimmer Marketwatch
Exit Taxes Won’t Save Failing States
Vance Ginn American Institute for Econ. Research
Bezos Shows How to Call Out Mamdani's Tax Rich Scams
Editorial New York Post
Nearing End of Tech Layoffs, Or Is This the Beginning?
Sheldon Jacobson The Hill
The Paradoxically Compassionate Meaning In Meta's Layoffs
John Tamny RCM
1991 Grads Have Job Advice For 2026 Graduates
Sydney Ember The New York Times
The Trump Admin. Should Deny Brightline's Bailout Request
Arjun Singh RealClear
Now Is the Time For Retirees To Hedge Against Inflation
Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's
For the Times to Honor Standards, Kristof Must Go
Peter Flaherty RealClearMarkets
GOP Starts to Retreat From Plan to Pay for Trump's Ballroom
Steve Benen MSNBC
Free Speech Shouldn't Be Just For the Party In the White House
Charles Sauer RC
Why Is Starbucks Getting a Free Upgrade?
Jason Edmonds Fdn for Economic Education
Saturday, May 23
The Social Security Squeeze That Retirees Live Inside
Tom Wilson RealClearMarkets
Everything Doesn't Have To Be A Gambling Experience
Victoria Guida Politico
No, the Treasury Market Didn't Just Discover the National Debt
John Tamny RCM
A Reform Agenda For New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh
Jai Kedia & Norbert J. Michel Cato
Treasure Your Attention. It's Valuable
Samuel J. Abrams AEIdeas
To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly
Otto Scharmer NOEMA
The Real Threat to Fed Independence
Allison Schrager City Journal
Is Immigration Good or Bad? That's The Wrong Question
Alan Manning Aeon
SpaceX IPO Filing Undersells Space Capitalism's Future
Rainer Zitelmann RealClear
Good News Is Good News. And Earnings Were Good
Paul R. La Monica Barrons.com
Dire Straits: What Iran's Block of Hormuz Could Unleash
Lynn Kuok Foreign Affairs
What Are Rising Interest Rates Telling Us?
Ben Carlson A Wealth of Common Sense
The Affordability Crisis Is About More than Prices
Carolina Alves Project Syndicate



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