RealClearMarkets Week of April 20, 2026 Archives

RealClearMarkets Off The Street

Monday, April 20

Why The US Economy Beats Europe

Michael Lind UnHerd

The Glory Days Of The Petrodollar Are Over

Brad W. Setser CFR

The Costs Of Our Whiplash Economy

Claudia Sahm Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM)

Productivity Is Key to Our Economic Future

Allison Schrager City Journal

UBI: If You Pay People Not To Work, They Won't

Christian Britschgi Reason

Your Odds Are Not The Average

Polymath Investor Polymath Investor

Tuesday, April 21

High Taxes And Red Tape Are Killing California

J.D. Tuccille Reason

The Act Of Investing Can Be Very Unpleasant

Sam Ro TKer by Sam Ro

The US Takes The Easy Road On China

Derek Scissors AEIdeas

Who's Getting Rich(er) On the Strait of Hormuz Closure

Rose George UnHerd

Why Trump Cannot Walk Away From Canada

Alejandro Reyes Foreign Policy

AI Does Everything Bigger - Even Fraud

Joe Wilkins Futurism

The Private Credit Panic Is Overblown

Dambisa Moyo Project Syndicate

Wednesday, April 22

The Apprentice, Fed Chair Edition

Claudia Sahm Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM)

Welcome To The Age Of Uncertainty

Wolfgang Munchau UnHerd

An Update On The Forgotten Tariff War

Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture

It's Not Just One Thing — It's Another Thing Too

Amanda Silberling TechCrunch

6 Tax Tips You Should Start Thinking About Now

Sheryl Rowling Morningstar

High Fertilizer Prices Are Because Of Iran, Right? Right?

Eric Boehm Reason

Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing

Ben Thompson Stratechery

Thursday, April 23

The Private Credit Shell Game

Rod Dubitsky Rod’s Substack

Social Security Faces A Financial Reckoning Soon

Alicia H. Munnell CRR

Homeowner's Insurance Premiums Rising? Blame Tariffs

Joe Lancaster Reason

Who Made Out On Trump's Memecoin?

Ashley Belanger Ars Technica

Trump’s Fed Chair Nominee Fails the Big Test

Catherine Rampell The Bulwark

Stocks Are At All-Time Highs For Good Reason

Sonu Varghese Carson Group

Why Tariffs Won't Fix China's Trade Surplus

Clark Packard & Chad Smitson Cato

Friday, April 24

World Tyranny Financial

Molly White Citation Needed

Washington's Self Inflicted Farm Crisis

Clark Packard Cato @ Liberty

What Kevin Warsh At The Fed Means

Sonu Varghese Carson Group

We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring

Freddie deBoer Freddie deBoer

Rethinking the “Right” Time for Social Security

Andrew Clements Humble Dollar

China is Expanding Its Trade War Toolbox

Joachim Klement Klement on Investing