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<title><![CDATA[Andy Kessler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16116.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Andy Kessler]]></description><category domain="16116">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Live Free and Prosper]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/live-free-and-prosper-185b520f?st=sSwkUr</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To enjoy prosperity, you have to participate in prosperity. Sadly, the progressive money train runs through our teachers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' unions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Going To Miss Tim Cook]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/were-going-to-miss-tim-cook-8289fcf9?st=Dz1Gbn</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tim Cook, who is stepping down as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Apple'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s CEO in September, didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t invent globalization, but he perfected it. In 2004, I wrote on these pages, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We think, they sweat.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Easy for me to say. Mr. Cook has lived and breathed it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'he made it happen, especially since the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Are No Rules for Success]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/there-are-no-rules-for-success-6928523c?st=BzDsQ7</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Young people, are you OK? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the Worst Time to Be a College Graduate in Years,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' reads a Newsweek headline. The Federal Reserve warns, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Recent College Grads Bear Brunt of Labor Market Shifts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' For 22- to 30-year-old computer-science graduates, employment has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let America&rsquo;s 250-Year Bash Begin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/let-americas-250-year-bash-begin-1c5d89c2?st=aAvKeh</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This Independence Day, the U.S. begins its countdown to the quarter millennium.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Left Do &lsquo;Abundance&rsquo;?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-the-left-do-abundance-slogan-movement-policy-politics-economy-fb42771d?st=W7qAPP</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives find a new slogan, but they misunderstand its real economic meaning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can You Handle 4 More Years of Progressive Rule?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-you-handle-four-more-years-kamala-harris-regulation-higher-taxes-price-controls-b482e8fd?st=9MuXfz</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Harris wins, get ready for higher taxes, price controls and heavier regulation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Love To Censor. What Happened?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-happened-to-free-speech-campus-universities-tech-platforms-media-policy-1be5be20?st=7U142u</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Harris Defied Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/when-kamala-defied-democracy-election-proposition-8-california-c4df8008?st=YxEDau</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I worry that as president, Ms. Harris may similarly disregard voters, the law and her presidential oath to implement price controls, confiscate guns, impose Medicare for all or ban fracking and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'please, no'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'red meat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pop Goes the DEI Bubble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/pop-goes-the-dei-bubble-affirmative-action-claudine-gay-harvard-esg-blackrock-39c77d13?mod=opinion_lead_pos7</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claudine Gay'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s resignation proved we are moving away from this harmful ideology.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economy Gets Wrung Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-economy-gets-wrung-out-earnings-layoffs-credit-fed-svb-bailout-merger-crypto-recession-5b957cb?mod=opinion_lead_pos8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A steady drip of bad news, including missed earnings and layoffs, is under way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-killed-silicon-valley-bank-interest-rates-treasury-federal-reserve-ipo-loan-long-term-bond-capital-securities-startup-jpmorgan-bear-stearns-lehman-brothers-b9ca2347?mod=opinion_lead_pos6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apparently no one at the firm perceived any risk from the Fed raising interest rates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Dollar in Danger?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-dollar-in-danger-china-russia-ruble-yuan-reserve-currency-foreign-sanctions-11647195545?st=o9482fo2m6iv6ya&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China and Russia may be working to take away America's 'exorbitant privilege.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mediocrity Is Now Mandatory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mediocrity-is-now-mandatory-11612724198?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From stimulus to school admissions, leaders act as if ease is the only worthy goal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bitcoin Valuation Bubble]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/PMjPquszCJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faithful techies think in coming decades one digital coin will be worth $500,000.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Learn a Language, But Not a Human One]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fluency in coding is a more useful skill than French, Spanish or Russian.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everyone's Worst Investing Fears]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Everyone%E2%80%99s+Worst+Investing+Fears&amp;oq=Everyone%E2%80%99s+Worst+Investing+Fears&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.104j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With assets in a funk, interest rates at zero and IPOs scarce, what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital to do?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Grads, You Need a P&amp;L]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Dear+Grads%2C+You+Need+a+P%26L&amp;oq=Dear+Grads%2C+You+Need+a+P%26L&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.171j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Debt-laden graduates, affluent alumni, birds-of-a-feather faculty and tuition-burdened parents: I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m sorry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m sorry that I won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be sucking up to you with the same old graduation platitudes. You should have invited Oprah: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How do you know when you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re doing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Uberization of Banking]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Uberization+of+Banking+-+WSJ&amp;oq=The+Uberization+of+Banking+-+WSJ&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3.1872j0j1&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In this city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s crowded financial district you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll find a Wells Fargo Bank branch with an antique stagecoach inside. But I was interested in talking with a former Wells Fargo employee, so I headed elsewhere, to SoFi, a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fintech'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'financial technology'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'company...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Department of the Internet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=The+Department+of+the+Internet</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Professors Are About to Get an Online Education]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578504761168566272.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who cares about America's shortage of computer-science experts should cheer the recent news out of Georgia Tech. The Atlanta university is making major waves in business and higher education with its May 14 announcement that the college will offer the first online master's degree...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's Why Public Pensions Are Doomed]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324100904578403213835796062.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been said that an actuary is someone who really wanted to be an accountant but didn't have the personality for it. See who's laughing now. Things are starting to get very interesting, actuarially-speaking.Federal bankruptcy judge Christopher Klein ruled on April 1 that Stockton,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Button that Made Facebook Billions]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204652904577196992203069570.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As bizarre as this sounds, one of the most valuable innovations in technology over the last several decades is Facebook's "Like" button. That's what has propelled the company to a galaxy-orbit valuation for its forthcoming initial public offering, filed Wednesday.This is not only because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of Consumption Equality]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577128230588463516.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It used to be so cool to be wealthy'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'an elite education, exclusive mobile communications, a private screening room, a table at Annabel's on London's Berkeley Square. Now it's hard to swing a cat without hitting yet another diatribe against income inequality. People sleep in tents to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Put Down That Shovel!]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574572230780152344.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House has passed a $154 billion jobs bill, and the administration has announced a plan to spend $50 billion of repaid TARP money to "create" jobs'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'this time its green jobs, "shovel ready" infrastructure projects ($27.5 billion for highway construction and repair) and a tax credit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Paulson Is Trying to Do]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122402984044334627.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Wall Street Will Prevail]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/51168/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andy Kessler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paulson Plan is a Big Win for Taxpayers]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122230704116773989.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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