RealClearMarkets Week of December 8, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 8

Three Cheers for Trump, and Gas-Powered Cars

Post Editorial Board New York Post

Right & Left Could Love Money Directly to Children

Nicholas Kulish New York Times

Trump's Political Instincts Fail Him on Affordability Crisis

Eugene Daniels MS NOW

Warning to Middle Class: First-Time Homebuyers Are 40

Shannon McGahn The Hill

Champagne Socialist Wishes, Caviar Rad Dreams

Sean Durns Washington Examiner

FEE’s 5 Best Economics Books of '25

Sergio Martínez Foundation for Economic Education

Newsom Now Opposes California Wealth Tax

Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity

Tuesday, December 9

Why Does Fed Require 300 PhD Economists?

Editors Committee to Unleash Prosperity

Quiet Millionaires Reveal the Source of Their Wealth

Arabella Bennett New York Post

The Fix For Kidney Disease & Death Is More Kidneys

Ike Brannon The Opinion Pages

Saudi Learned Very Little from China's 'Ghost Cities'

Stefan Bartl The Daily Economy

Netflix’s Swallowing of Warners: End of Hollywood?

Roy Price The New York Times

How the Left Has Corrupted the Information on Wikipedia

John Stossel StosselTV

Do We Need To Break Extreme Concentration In Beef Industry?

Peter Navarro Hill

Wednesday, December 10

$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?

Zack Cooper NYT

3 Contrarian Investment Ideas for 2026

Dan Lefkovitz Morningstar

Is It a Bubble? Has AI Enthusiasm Become Irrational?

Howard Marks Oaktree Capital

The New Information Wars & The Temptation of Censorship

John Aziz Quillette

The Free Market Is Connecting Rural America, Not Gov't

Ed Tarnowski Reason

What Happened to NFTs? Are The Apes Still Bored?

Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture

Thursday, December 11

How Scott Bessent Became The MAGA Robert Rubin

Ben Smith Semafor

How Likely is a Stock Market Crash?

Victor Haghani & James White Elm Wealth

How Divided Is the Fed? 6 Soft Dissents Says 'Very'

Sarah Hansen Morningstar

Scrooge: Why Does The Government Tax Christmas Trees?

Adam N. Michel Cato

Pot Meet Kettle: Did Trump Commit Mortgage Fraud?

Justin Elliott ProPublica

$100K H-1B Visa Fee Is Shutting Out Foreign Workers

Pavithra Mohan Fastcompany

Friday, December 12

How to Invest Like Warren Buffett

Emelia Fredlick & Tori Brovet Morningstar

China's Economy Reveals the Limits of Central Planning

Milton Ezrati Quillette

Why America Gave Up On Economists

Andrew Prokop Vox

Netflix and Paramount Will Now Fight For Trump's Favor

Robby Soave Reason

Five Unusual Things Markets Did in 2025

Barry Gilbert Carson Group

Whose Inflation Is This?

Barry Ritholtz The Big Picture