RealClearMarkets Week of February 16, 2026 Archives

RealClearMarkets Off The Street

Tuesday, February 17

The Trucking Company Karaoke Night Massacre

George Steer FT Alphaville

The Cost Of Trump's Tariffs

John Rapley UnHerd

An Update On The AI Jobs Non-Apocalypse

James Pethokoukis AEIdeas

The Zero-Sum Trap: How Gambling Drains Wallets

Peter Jacobsen Daily Economy

Economic Data Can Be Both Worse and Good

Sam Ro TKer by Sam Ro

Why Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' Still Resonates in 2025

William Barker Quillette

Spurious Correlations: Super Bowl In The Year of Horse

Ryan Detrick Carson Group

Wednesday, February 18

RFK Jr.'s FDA Is Killing New Drug Development

Alex Tabarrok Marginal Revolution

We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us

Allison Schrager Known Unknowns

The Revolt Of The Laptop Class

Ryan Zickgraf UnHerd

We Are Not Our Tools

Eric Markowitz X (formerly Twitter)

Smart Homes Are Terrible

Jason Fried The Atlantic

Have We Hit Peak US Dollar Bearishness?

Robin Wigglesworth FT Alphaville

Some Things That Didn't Happen

Ben Carlson A Wealth of Common Sense

Thursday, February 19

The Grift Economy Is Going Mainstream

Hanna Horvath Your Brain on Money

Does the U.S. Actually Have a Housing Shortage?

Nick Maggiulli Of Dollars And Data

ESPN Has Made America Stupid

David Masciotra UnHerd

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kevin Hassett

Robin Wigglesworth FT Alphaville

Washington's Millionaire Tax Is Economic Suicide

Jared Dillian Reason

Netflix Calls Paramount's Bluff

M.G. Siegler Spyglass

The Ex-U.S. Trade is Working

Ben Carlson A Wealth of Common Sense

Friday, February 20

Replacement Anxiety

Scott Sumner The Pursuit of Happiness

Oops! Trump Tariffs Push Trade Deficit To Record High

Eric Boehm Reason

What To Make Of This Weird Market

James Mackintosh WSJ/Streetwise

There's No Alpha In What's Already Public

Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture

Poll: Canadians Are Not Happy With Us

Nick Taylor-Vaisey Politico

AI Isn't Eating Software But It's Raising Volatility

David Parsons Bond Vigilantes