RealClearMarkets Week of June 15, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 15
The Other Record SpaceX Broke on Its Historic IPO Day
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
Elon Musk As the First Trillionaire Is Nothing To Celebrate
Hayes Brown MS NOW
After IPO Hype, Don't Be Shocked If SpaceX Shares Fizzle
Charles Gasparino NYP
Despite Recent Market Moves, '26 Has Been Calm
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Wages Falling, Wealth Surging, Unhappiness Rising
Ben Casselman New York Times
Bitcoin’s Uselessness As Money Well Predates Recent Decline
John Tamny Forbes
Powerful Inflation Storm Is Brewing & You're Not Ready
Michael Brush Marketwatch
Lefty Misread of 'Death of a Salesman' Buries Meaning
George Will Washington Post
Sorry, First Class No Longer For the Road Warriors
Tim Carney Washington Examiner
Why You May Truly Be Spending Too Little In Retirement
Elizabeth O'Brien Barron's
ESG Investing Promises Far More Than It Actually Delivers
Stefan Padfield Heritage
Lawmakers Must Fix Tax Treatment of Litigation Funding
Michael Toth RealClear
Forget Trade, U.S. Businesses Must Save Themselves
John Di Leo American Thinker
Tariff-Jumping Doesn't Prove That Tariffs Work
Marc Busch & Rodney Ludema The Hill


Tuesday, June 16
It Is the Humble Investor Who Quietly Survives
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
The SpaceX IPO Is Ultimately a Bet on Human Ingenuity
Shawn Regan City Journal
High Rates & Entitlements Take Us to Debt Disaster
Megan McArdle Washington Post
We're Going Broke Because Musk Isn't Paying Enough Taxes
Greg Landsman USAT
No, We Have Soaring Debt Because Musk Pays Too Much Tax
John Tamny RCM
Fed Can Exit Housing, or Keep Mortgages Cheap. Not Both
Richard Roberts RCM
One City May Have Cracked Housing Crisis
Binyamin Appelbaum The New York Times
Work In Retirement Without Loss of Soc. Security Benefits
Richard Eisenberg MW
EU Failure Gets Another Legislative Shot In the U.S.
Tom Campbell RealClearMarkets
Why "Community" Is Most Controversial Banking Word
Rebecca Ungarino Barron's
Why Tech Billionaires Don't Want Attendants on Jets
Lydia Moynihan New York Post
Swedish Model Revered by Bernie Sanders Won't Work Here
Bruce Thompson RCM
Bad GOP PR Is the Source of Economic Unease
Joseph Ford Cotto American Thinker
What's Most Worrying About Trump's "I Love the Inflation"
Zeeshan Aleem MS NOW


Wednesday, June 17
How Ken Griffin Makes His Money, What He Does With It
Gary Sernovitz New Yorker
Sen. Warren Wants to Tax What Elon Musk Hasn't Sold
Jay Rogers RealClearMarkets
A Market Perspective On Iran Truce Whisperings
Market Minder Fisher Investments
AI Correction Could Be Worse Than the Internet Bust
Vivekanand Jayakumar The Hill
Government Has Bigger Slice of Google Than Its Founders Do
David McLean RCM
As "Magnificent Seven" Becomes Passe, MANGOS Rises
Frances Yue Marketwatch
The Right Once Revered Neither Musk Nor the Stock Market
John Tamny RealClear
Trump’s Pay-for-Play Bridge Controversy Has Gotten Worse
Steve Benen MS NOW
Strip the Right of Government To Confiscate Capital
Gary Marshall American Thinker
Space X Is Brilliant, But It's Not a Buy: Chris Wood Interview
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
Some of the Questions That Fed Chair Warsh Must Answer
Brij Khurana Barron's
10 Reasons to Utilize a Roth IRA for Retirement Savings
Rachel Hartman U.S. News
Could Increased Taxes On the Rich Save Social Security?
Medora Lee USA Today
The Supreme Court Fails To Limit the Power Of the FCC
Harold Furchtgott-Roth RCM


Thursday, June 18
Social Security Trust Fund: Politics & Practicalities
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Most Important Aspect of Scott Bessent's Talk Wasn't Tariffs
John Burtka The Hill
With Iran, Trump Has a $300 Billion Problem On His Hands
Steve Benen MS NOW
The Real Economic Damage From Iran Conflict Is Far From Over
Ashley Titus RCM
Americans: Biggest Barrier to Trump Reindustrialization
Chris Johnson Fox News
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Wealth Launches A Trillion Tax Lies
Editorial Issues & Insights
The Obnoxious Conceit of "Stablecoin" Cheerleaders
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
America Didn't Give Musk a Trillion. He Earned Every Penny
Ted Jenkin Fox News
Clinging To a Myth That Is Making Our Energy More Expensive
David Urban RCM
We Liked Remote Work. Then We Saw Data
Emma Harrington & Natalia Emmanuel NYT
The Best Performing Stocks So Far In 2026
Wayne Duggan U.S. News & World Report
A Question Democratic Socialists Never Seem to Ask
Tom Wilson RealClearMarkets
Zero Sum? The Big Cost of Big City Spending
Jeremy Portnoy RealClearInvestigations
Halt Terror-Driven Gold Rush In Venezuela
Josh Birenbaum & Susan Soh New York Post


Friday, June 19
Why Taxing the Rich Will Not Save Social Security
Ramesh Ponnuru Washington Post
As Stocks Hit Record Highs, Consider the Highs In Dollars
Mark Gianniny RealClear
Don't Worry, the Enormous IPOs Won't Sink the Stock Market
Jack Hough Barron's
The Libertarian Myth About Student Loans & Rising Uni Tuition
John Tamny RCM
Warsh Makes Case w/Jargon, Penchant for Detail
Sydney Ember The New York Times
Gold Is Yet Again Is Unequal to Safe Haven Status
Market Minder Fisher Investments
The Fed Has Been Risking Economy To Influence Midterms
Timothy Birdnow AT
Why Sports-Gambling Tax Revenue Disappoints
Charles Fain Lehman Manhattan Inst.
What Will the U.S. Economy Look Like In Aftermath of Iran?
Joel Mathis The Week
Economics of June 12th, and Why It Should Be a Nat'l Holiday
Charles Steele RCM
Wealth As Luck: Are Your Life Savings About Coin Flip?
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Your Financial Records Have No 4th Amendment Protections
Jay Rogers The Hill
Blockchain & AI Will Boost Housing, Won't Replace Judgement
Chris Morton RCM
What If None of the Data Center Scare Stories Are True?
Editorial Issues & Insights
Productivity Paradox: Hidden Cost of "Cognitive Debt"
Amyn Jan & Mitzi Perdue RCM
Saturday, June 20
Iran Just Taught the World a Dangerous Lesson
Edward Fishman The New York Times
Passive Investing Is How You Win The Loser's Game
Larry Swedroe Larry’s Substack
Americans Overwhelmingly Want Capitalism Taught In Schools
Ari Shtein Reason
An Optimistic Case for the Popularity of "Death of a Salesman"
John Tamny RCM
Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy
Paul Krugman Paul Krugman
The Long Shadow of the Iran War
Ian Bremmer & Firas Maksad Foreign Affairs
It Is Not Impossible: How to Earn a Billion Dollars
Paul Graham Paul Graham
The Mars Delusion: The Siren Call Of The Red Planet
Henry Wismayer NOEMA
Trump's Harsh Trade Medicine Benefits No One
Maurice Obstfeld Hoover Institution
Making Iran's Stock Market Great Again
Joseph Cotterill FT Alphaville
The Milkman: The Confounding Success of Raw Milk
Annie Waldman ProPublica
Trump’s Trade Agenda & The Rule of Law
Emma Tamargo & Ellen Melim Drezner’s World



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