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

Fulsome Praise of Elon Musk Is Better Late Than Never, But...

John Tamny RCM

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