RealClearMarkets Week of August 24, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 24
Trump Is Right To Index Capital Gains, Zero It For Housing
Michael Faulkender Hill
Surrounded by Billionaires, Trump Suffers Rich Groupthink
Charlie Herman MSNBC
The Fed Must Be Held Tight To a Market-Price Stability Rule
Alexander Salter RCM
The Fed Can Do Nothing Abt. Always Transitory Market Prices
John Tamny Forbes
Mkt Valuation Says Nothing About Stocks' Direction
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Why Stocks Are So Far Shrugging Off Rise In Bond Yields
Alex Rosenberg Barron's
Some Surprisingly Good News This Midterm Election Yr.
Mark Hulbert Marketwatch
Amid Startling Headlines, Is Now Time to Buy Bonds?
Jeff Sommer New York Times
We Need To Remind Americans Why Capitalism's Important
Frank Miniter Fox News
Do Not Fret $40 Trillion Worth of Debt? You Will Regret It
Editorial Issues & Insights
Welfare Reform at Age 30: Work Is Still the Answer
Newt Gingrich Washington Post
A Speculation On Why Global Food Markets Are Rallying
Imran Khalid RealClear
Trump Should Act Fast to Put U.S. Canned Food First
Scott Breen RealClearMarkets
Taxes: Legal Attack Dog Takes on Zohran Mamdani
Charles Gasparino New York Post


Tuesday, August 25
Scott Bessent Plants the Seeds For Crack-Up
Stanley Druckenmiller Wall Street Journal
A Debt Crisis? Interest Rates Aren't Saying So
Joseph Calhoun Alhambra Investments
Washington Driving U.S. Toward a Debt Crisis We Can't Ignore
Les Rubin Fox News
The $40T Debt Is Not the Crisis, the $40T Debt Is the Crisis
John Tamny RealClear
An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit
Paul Vigna New York Times
The $40 Trillion Debt a Reminder of Musk's DOGE Farce
Matthew Bartlett MS NOW
A Question Retirees Won't Stop Asking: Do I Have Enough?
Kenneth Pringle Barron's
A Bearish Comment About How Overvalued the Stock Market Is
Mark Hulbert MW
What Happened To So-Called AI "Job Apocalypse"?
Joe Bertolami RealClearMarkets
SpaceX Is An Even Better Buy Today Than Last Month
Stephen McBride RiskHedge
To Boost Hollywood Competition, Let Paramount/WBD Proceed
Ike Brannon RCM
After Spitting On Milton Friedman, J.D. Vance Praises Huey Long?
Editors CTUP
"Operation Economic Outcast": A Recipe for Success In Iran
Richard Goldberg NYP
Why Boards Can't Outsource the North Korea Problem
Jay Rogers RealClearMarkets
The Nixon Shock 55 Years Later
Jeffery Degner American Institute for Economic Research


Wednesday, August 26
The Fall & Redemption of Bill Miller, Once the Investor 'GOAT'
Andy Serwer Barron's
AI Babble? How To Make Money In the Tech Revolution
Ken Fisher New York Post
The Humbling of Scott Bessent, 30 Odd Years Later
John Cassidy The New Yorker
To Spare Us Crisis, Can Republicans For Once Be Republicans?
John Tamny RCM
Don't Let FTC Tarnish Trump's Golden Age of Capitalism
Stephen Moore Fox News
Why There's No Easy Path Toward New Wealth Taxes
David Weaver RealClearMarkets
Trump's New Trade War w/Canada: Needless As It Is Costly
Zeeshan Aleem MSN
International Criminal Court Is Woke NGO. Shutter It
David Hoile American Greatness
Is There a Taxation and Regulation Barrier to Start-Ups?
Reuven Brenner RealClear
Tax Cuts, Wars Are Not Why the National Debt Is at $40T
Editorial Issues & Insights
To Get Debt Under Control, Start With Retirement State
Editorial Washington Post
Moderna Has Ushered In Very Exciting Future For Medicine
Chris Reilly RiskHedge
Iran War Shows China’s Energy Strategy Is Working
Michal Meidan New York Times
The DSA Leadership Is All That It Pontificates Against
J.T. Young RealClearMarkets


Thursday, August 27
How Bessent Is Preparing To Slam the 'Vigilantes'
Charles Gasparino New York Post
Bessent's Embrace of Trump's Persona Could Sink Him
Stephen Myrow Barron's
$50T Debt Isn't a Distant Threat. We Are Speeding Toward It
Ted Jenkin Fox News
At $40T, America's Debt Load Isn't Overwhelming
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Critics of Elizabeth Holmes Can't Have It Both Ways
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Tariffs Erasing America’s Credibility
David Hebert American Institute for Econ. Research
Here's How AI Debt Binge Sinks the Economy
Robin Wigglesworth The New York Times
The 'Fair Access' Chip Amendment Is a Gift to Beijing
Eric Miller RealClearMarkets
Sorry, but Meta Settlement Will Not Make the Kids Alright
Editorial Washington Post
The Real Artificial Intelligence Boom Hasn't Begun
Mark Gianniny RealClearMarkets
CA Reveals a Willingness to Regulate Literally Anything
Editorial Issues & Insights
Rob Bonta's Antitrust Fix For Hollywood Needs Rewrite
Eric Fruits RealClearMarkets
The Biggest, Most Unseen Risk To Your Retirement Plan
Matt Fleissig Marketwatch
The Truth About How Much To Save To Retire Millionaire
Christy Bieber Motley Fool
GOP Has Sacrificed Friedman's Free Market on the Trump Altar
Max Burns The Hill


Friday, August 28
New Soc. Security Math Could Lead Us Down a Bad Road
Brett Arends Marketwatch
Cloward, Piven, and Zinn Told Us They Wanted to Bankrupt U.S.
Vince Coyner AT
Jackson Hole Is Where Warsh Can Lay Out Inflation Plan
Megan Leonhardt Barron's
What On Earth Is Going On At the Treasury?
Geng Ngarmboonanant New York Times
Bodegas of New York Unite Against Mamdani's Groceries
Editorial Washington Post
The Mamdani Grocery Stores Not Worth the Right's Indignation
John Tamny RCM
Contra Mamdani, NYC Gov't Is the Opposite of Austere
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
Mamdani Socialism & Trump Socialism: Let's Reject Both
Benjamin Powell The Hill
Why Stocks Aren't Sweating Canada/U.S. Tariffs
Market Minder Fisher Investments
Deloitte's Diversity Spreadsheet Cost It $21.5 Million
Jay Rogers RealClearMarkets
Some Truths About Data Centers From a Computer Professor
Stephen Weese FEE
Keeping Track of Employee AI Usage May Backfire
Susan Powell RealClearMarkets
California Should Be #1 In Happiness, Not Middle of Pack
Editorial California Post
Victimization Is Cancer, Forgiveness Heals, Responsibility Wins
Rob Smith RCM
'The Gilded Age': How Dynamism Drives Responsibility
John McGinnis Law & Liberty
Auto Aftermarket As a Way of Gauging Econ Health
Bill Harvey & Emily Poladian RCM
Saturday, August 29
Why I'm Not Worried About Government Debt
Ben Carlson A Wealth of Common Sense
What if the A.I. Stock Market Rally Is Just Getting Started?
Jeff Sommer NY Times
The Prohibitive Cost of Armed Federal Deportations
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Blazing Loonies: Stop The Tariffs Or We'll Tax Ourselves!
J.D. Tuccille Reason
Will Argentina Break Out Of Mercosur?
Marcos Falcone Cato @ Liberty
Jared Kushner Is the Face of American Oligarchy
Casey Michel Foreign Policy
A Great Rebalancing Is Coming
Michael Pettis Foreign Affairs
The Bond Vigilantes vs The Bond Bureaucrats
Peter C. Earle Daily Economy
Net Zero Won't Fix Climate Change, But Technology Will
John Aziz Quillette
A Century of Policy by Accident
Daniel Peris American Affairs Journal
The Fed And The Treasury Are in Denial
Katharina Pistor Project Syndicate
A September Rate Hike? Warsh Sure Sounded Hawkish
Tom Lauricella Morningstar



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