RealClearMarkets Week of January 19, 2026 Archives

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Tuesday, January 20

CA Is Ground Zero For the U.S.'s Descent Into Socialism

Joel Kotkin Yahoo News

What Tower of Babel Can Teach Us About Economics

Felipe Camolesi Modesto FEE

Will Mamdani Dump Worst Budget Mess Since '08 On Us?

Editorial New York Post

Oxfam Is Peddling Myths About Wealth Ahead of Davos

Rainer Zitelmann City AM

China’s Debt Problem, Along With U.S.'s Own Problem

Corbin Barthold Law & Liberty

A Case for Economic Union Between U.S. & Canada

Arthur Herman Civitas Institute

With Energy Use, Tomorrow Is Often Another Country

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

Wednesday, January 21

Trump's Threat To The Dollar

Desmond Lachman AEIdeas

Trump's Crypto Gamble: Stablecoins vs US Dollars

Christopher Smart Foreign Affairs

Most CEOs Seeing No Return On AI Investments

Victor Tangermann Futurism

California's 'Billionaire Tax' Could Bite Harder Than Advertised

J.D. Tuccille Reason

Why Trump Will get Greenland

Wolfgang Munchau UnHerd

AI Companies Will Fail. What We Can Salvage

Cory Doctorow The Guardian

Thursday, January 22

Why 2026 Will Likely Serve More TACOS

Daniel Desrochers & Megan Messerly Politico

The Real Secret To Warren Buffett's Investing Success

Larry Swedroe Morningstar

The Leverage Europe Has Over the U.S. Economy

Eshe Nelson The New York Times

What Happens In Silicon Valley Doesn't Stay There

Brent Orrell Aei

Greenland Invasion: Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold

Sean Welsh Quillette

Warren & Sanders Would Be At Home In Today's GOP

Veronique de Rugy Reason

Friday, January 23

Is Value Investing Dead? Or Just Dormant?

Jose Ordonez Alpha Architect

The Banana Republic Portfolio

Financial Sense Financial Sense

Stablecoins: A Quiet Revolution In Finance

Robert Burrows Bond Vigilantes

The Greenland Tariff Farce & America’s ‘Emergency’

Scott Lincicome The Dispatch

Who Should Farmers Believe? Trump Or Their Lying Eyes

Clark Packard Cato

Why AI Will Never Fully Automate Finance

Ola Mahmoud CFA Institute

How (And Why) To Look Broke and Be Rich

Darius Foroux Darius Foroux