RealClearMarkets Week of February 19, 2018 Archives

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Tuesday, February 20

Why Worst May Be Over In the Stock-Market Correction

Ryan Vlastelica MarketWatch

How Did Europe Uniquely Become the Richest Part of the World?

Joel Mokyr Aeon

CaptiveAire's Bob Luddy, Entrepreneur/Teacher Extraordinaire

R. Emmett TyrrellTAS

Why This Economist Thinks Public Education Is Mostly Pointless

Sean Illing Vox

Attention Seniors, Trump Budget Targets Medicare Benefits

Michelle Singletary WP

Supreme Court Judgment Day for Public Sector Unions

Daniel DiSalvo City Journal

How to Halt the Slow Death of America's Big Labor Movement

Sarah Jaffe TNR

Restoring Founders Federalism to Fight against Poverty

Robert Doar National Review

Wednesday, February 21

What Economists Do With the Obvious Is Often Mindblowing

Donald Boudreaux PTR

Is Billionaire Technology Genius Peter Thiel Being Oppressed?

Alex Shephard TNR

Market Signals Mock the 'Russian Meddling' Pretense

Jacob Sullum New York Post

Stories That Will Have to Wait For Next Market Downturn

Jonathan Clements MW

Did Investors Care About Fed Rates in 2017? Maybe in '18

Thomas Kee MarketWatch

Steel Industry Protection Wrong Way To Go

Veronique de Rugy & Christine McDaniel IBD

Trump's 'Harvest Box' Is a Digital-Age Innovation Marx Would Cheer

Editorial USAT

Trump Infrastructure Plan Might Have One Good Idea For Cities

Henry Grabar Slate

Thursday, February 22

The Economic Message from Equity Markets

Jeffrey Frankel Project Syndicate

Retirement-Savings Crisis: Lives of Never-Ending Work

Alana Semuels The Atlantic

U.S. Companies With the Most Cash Overseas

Brian O'Keefe & Nicolas Rapp Fortune

Bondageddon Is Closer Than You Think

Marcus Ashworth Bloomberg Gadfly

Stifling Competition: Big Companies Dominate US Economy

Noah Smith Bloomberg

Now We Know Where The Tax Cuts Are Going: Buybacks

Tim Mullaney MarketWatch

The CIA, A Tycoon, A Mystery Ship & Deep Sea Treasure

David Shukman BBC News

A Textbook Progression To A Bear Market

Macromon Global Macro Monitor

Share Buybacks Boom After Tax Reform

Ironman Political Calculations

Friday, February 23

Wages Are Finally Starting to Rise, But Not For the Middle Class

Don Lee LA Times

Behind One Of The Greatest Financial Scams In History

Knowledge@Wharton

Four Horsemen Of The Retirement Apocalypse

Larry Swedroe Advisor Perspectives

Inflation Worrywarts Just Need to Calm Down

Daniel Moss Bloomberg View

The Great American Pension Crisis

Edward Harrison Credit Writedowns

No Pension? A Strategy To Make Your Savings Last

Steve Vernon MarketWatch

Harvard Alumni Cook Up A Bad Idea For The Endowment

Nir Kaissar Bloomberg

Japan Fills The Free Trade Vacuum In Asia

Yoichi Funabashi Washington Post

Undue Pessimism Amid Plenty

Michael Spence Project Syndicate

The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History?

Derek Thompson The Atlantic

Monday, February 26

Trump's Protectionism Will Make Us Losers Over and Over Again

Gary Galles FEE

Peter Navarro, a Top Trade Skeptic, Is Now Ascendant

Ana Swanson New York Times

Why Investors Should Pay Closer Attention to Yield Curve

Sonny Oh MarketWatch

Shortcuts to Avoid and Use When Saving for Retirement

Robert Powell USA Today

Surprises to Look For In Powell's First Big Testimony

Caroline Baum MarketWatch

How Modern Art Increasingly Serves the Superrich

Rachel Wetzler The New Republic

How Federal Electric Car Mandates Wreak Havoc on Auto Industry

Henry Payne NR

How Amazon, JPM, BRK Could Transform U.S. Healthcare

Nathan Bomey USA Today