RealClearMarkets Week of February 16, 2026 Archives

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Tuesday, February 17

Trump EPA Revolution To Make CA More Affordable

Jon Fleischman California Post

Libertarians Say They Warned Us About Trump. Not Really

Anthony Fisher MS NOW

Trump Right to Worry About Rates, But There's a Price to Pay

Carol Roth Fox News

Can USD Remain World's Currency?

Peter Fenwick Foundation for Economic Education

Breathless In Seattle, As the Exodus Picks Up

Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity

How Boston’s Mayor Makes the Wrong Call on Rent Control

Eric Kober City Journal

What Chief Executive Officers Are Worried About

Jordyn Holman The New York Times

Wednesday, February 18

Investors Are Getting The US Debasement Trade Wrong

Joachim Klement Reuters

A Reality Check on Trump’s Tariffs

Caleb S. Fuller & Scott Burns The Daily Economy

Miami Still Isn't The Next Silicon Valley. It's Weirder

Melia Russell Business Insider

AI Won't End Software Engineering — It Will Transform It

Sean Welsh Quillette

Five US Policy Shifts Could Reshape Financial Markets

Dambisa Moyo PS

Do Republicans Remember Solyndra?

Michael A. Woronoff Commentary Magazine

Thursday, February 19

Why Europe Doesn’t Have a Tesla

Pieter Garicano Works in Progress

Déjà vu: A Credit-Card Cap Would Crush the Economy

Judge Glock City Journal

Indebted to the Printing Press

Alexander W. Salter The Daily Economy

Housing Doesn't Need Higher Prices, Just More Homes

Tobias Peter AEIdeas

How Olympians Like Eileen Gu Make Millions

Rafael Nam NPR

China Is Killing Fish. Lots Of Fish

Noah Smith Noahpinion

Friday, February 20

What The Supreme Court Ruling Means For Markets

Sarah Hansen Morningstar

A Simple Policy to Reduce Food Prices

James B. Meigs City Journal

Trump Sill Has Plenty of Tariff Options

Jacob Sullum Reason

4 Charts: What The Tariff Ruling Means For Fiscal Policy

Adam N. Michel Cato

There Is No Nuclear Renaissance

Marco Visscher UnHerd

On The Other Hand...

Ryan Detrick Carson Group

Return to Reality: Pivoting Amid Digital Overload

Taylor Davidson The Daily Economy