RealClearMarkets Week of August 10, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 10
How Much Do You Require to Retire In Comfort? Let's See
Daniel de Visé USA Today
David Ellison’s NYT "Confessional" Challenges Deal
Charles Gasparino New York Post
Today's 'Fun' Socialism Is Unlikely to 'Begin' U.S. Again
George Will Washington Post
Warsh Wants New Fed. Markets Are Not Sure
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich New York Times
No Such Thing As Central Bank "Monetary Accommodation"
John Tamny Forbes
Regulators Erased 'Reputational Risk' for Banks. It's Meaningless
Jay Rogers RCM
The Number of Stocks Beating S&P Is at Four-Year High
Frances Yue Marketwatch
The July Jobs Report Was a Whole Lot of Nothing
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Trump Wants To Be Oilman-In-Chief. It's Costing Him
Joseph Zeballos-Roig MS NOW
Rising Prices Might Not Cost GOP As Much As You Think
David Marcus Fox News
The Single Most Important Aspect of Apple's Growth Story
Chris Wood Grow or Die
Here's Why Wendy's Is Presently Losing Hamburger Wars
Bill Peters Marketwatch
Pass GROWTH Act, to Give Us a Better Retirement
Spencer Cohen RealClearMarkets
Commuting to Work Isn't Proof of Work Contra the Narrative
Gleb Tsipursky The Hill


Tuesday, August 11
America and Americans Are About To Get Much Richer
Richard Vigilante Israel Test
Why Oil Keeps Getting More Abundant
Gale Pooley Am. Institute for Economic Research
The White House Tries & Fails to Spin the Economy Upward
Steve Benen MS NOW
The Economy Is Remarkably Unremarkable
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
Trump Should Want To Import Milei's Balanced Budgets
Editorial Issues & Insights
Balanced Budget Hagiography Plays Into Hands of Big Gov't
John Tamny RealClear
Is the Laffer Curve Real? We Asked Claude AI
Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity
Your Portfolio's Biggest Threat Isn't the Market, It's You
Brandon Pizzurro RealClear
An Economic & Moral Case for Competitive Markets
Ross Levine Hoover Institution
The Bond Market Points To Rising Risks for Investors
Jeff Sommer New York Times
Good News, Corporate Earnings Growth Is Not Just Tech
Isabel Wang Marketwatch
6G Is Coming: Will the West Let China Write Rules?
Matthew Gould Washington Post
$750B AI Question: Where the Return on Investment?
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
Defending Yen Is Treasury's Job. The Fed Shouldn't Take It
Richard Roberts RCM
Dems' Project 2029 Will Increase Gov't Control of the Internet
Norm Singleton RCM


Wednesday, August 12
The New Wild West: Texas Experiments With Raw Capitalism
Avi Salzman Barron's
July Inflation Blows a Hole In Fed-Must-Remain-Tight Story
Peter Navarro RCM
Fears About Fed Independence: Bull Mkt. Hallmark
Market Minder Fisher Investments
When Power, Policy and Capital Go Wrong
David Salem Hedgeye Risk Management
An MIT Economist Exposes Liberalism's Self-Harm
Julia Cartwright Washington Post
Govt's Don't Spare Us "Chernobyl Moments," They Create Them
John Tamny RCM
Trump's Chance to Create Jobs, Make NY Buildable Again
John Faso New York Post
Opposite What Musk Contends, Money Won't Die of Abundance
Imran Khan RCM
Proposition 13 Redux As Property Tax Anger Picks Up?
Steven Malanga City Journal
CA's Blind Rush to Green NRG Renders It Blackout State
Editorial Issues & Insights
Economics 101 Explains Global Food Affordability Challenge
Mark Pryor RealClear
A Skyscraper Nearly Fell. How Worried Should We Be?
Nate Bliss New York Times
Congress Should Leave Railway Safety Act at the Station
Kristian Stout RealClear
The Dangerous Politicization of American Bank Charters
Patrick Brenner The Hill
LIV Golf Tour Just Got New Life, But Uncertainty Remains
Justin Klawans The Week


Thursday, August 13
Isn't It the Purpose Of Money To Live Life & Be Joyful?
Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture
Retirement Is Better Than Ever As 65+ Works Longer Than Ever
John Tamny RCM
PPI Confirms CPI, Tells Fed to Not Invent Inflation Crisis
Peter Navarro RealClear
An Investment Theory For the AI Economy, Part II
Richard Vigilante The Israel Test
$30T Treasury Mkt. Faces a Reckoning
Joseph Adinolfi & Philip van Doorn Marketwatch
It Won't Be Very Simple For the TXSE to Supplant the NYSE
Avi Salzman Barron's
Inflation Is Still Too High, & Kevin Warsh Must Act Soon
Editorial Washington Post
About Inflation, Please Do Look Past the Headlines
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Ban of Open-Weight AI Models Could Cost U.S. the AI Race
Jon Decker RealClear
AI Hype Is Running Into Reality
David Wallace-Wells & Natasha Sarin The New York Times
Elon Musk Should Skip Telecom War, Win the AI Race
Ike Brannon RealClearMarkets
Teen Employment Remains Weak
Jazmine Amoako & Sara Estep Center for Am. Progress
How Toppling Of Auto Parts Maker Sapped Manufacturing
Richard Osborne RCM
How Democrats' DEI Kept Home Buyers In the Dark
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
Tax Cut On Housing That Should Be a Layup
Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity


Friday, August 14
Don't Fall For the Alarmism About 30-Yr Treasuries
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Stagflation, Scourge of the 1970s, Has Returned...
Phillip Braun The New York Times
Regulation Won't Prevent the Next Financial Panic
Robert Goldberg RealClearMarkets
Breaking Down Steve Hilton's Sweeping New CA Tax Plan
Editorial California Post
"Honoring" Lindsey Graham With Tax Hikes Is Abjectly Foolish
John Tamny RCM
New York State's Reckless Fiscal Trajectory
E.J. McMahon & Ken Girardin City Journal
Whatever You Do, Don't Outsource Your Judgement to Others
Rob Smith RealClear
Trump Keeps Promising Americans Cash. But It's Not Arriving
Lily Becker MS NOW
Socialism's Failures Run Roughshod Over Its Promises
J.T. Young RealClearMarkets
Who Can Grasp the Eternal Optimism of EV Enthusiasts?
Editorial Issues & Insights
I Was Formerly a Planet Doomer. I Was Wrong
Matt Ridley Fdn. for Economic Education
Woops, the Antitrust Cops Kicked Paramount Out of CA
Editors Unleash Prosperity
These Kinds of Workers Don't Fear the Rise of AI One Bit
Aditi Shrikant Marketwatch
Before Regulating AI, Set Strict Limits for Government
Derek Kan Washington Post
History Rhyming Again As a 1922 Satire Becomes Reality
Reuven Brenner RealClear
Saturday, August 15
GDP Distorts the True Strength of U.S. Economy
Bruce Thompson RealClearMarkets
Adam Smith Wouldn't Recognize Musk's Capitalism
Tim O'Reilly The Economist
Americans Like Socialism and Free Markets, Really
Jason Thurlkill RealClearMarkets
TACO No More: How Trump Won On Tariffs
Victoria Guida Politico
The Profit Motive Bringing to Life the Paradise Marx Envisioned
John Tamny RCM
Who Will Pay For DSA's $200 Trillion Agenda? You...
Adam N. Michel Cato @ Liberty
The Markets Have Been on a Roll. Time To Hedge?
Jeff Sommer New York Times
How Often Should You Check Your Portfolio?
Ben Carlson A Wealth of Common Sense
The American Sports Plutocracy Conspiracy
Derek Thompson Derek Thompson
Why Soaring Profit Margins Aren't Always Good News
Amir Goren Barrons
The State Of The American Consumer In 11 Charts
Sonu Varghese Carson Group
The Lesson of 1971 Was Never About Gold
Stefan Bartl The Daily Economy
The $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
Jesse Coburn ProPublica
What Should Be Done About Asia’s Undervalued Currencies?
Jeffrey Frankel PS



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