This is why we need fiscal stimulus….

The Conference Board came out with this press release this morning:…

It's getting harder and harder to get a job. This chart from the BLS is the number of unemployed 27 weeks or more.

The employment number with a 7.6% unemplouyment rate and a plunge of 598,000 in payrolls is even worse than it appears. For one thing, the broadest…

Henry "Bud" Hebeler runs the www.analyzenow.com website. He sent me an article he just wrote on Generic Investment Advice. Here's how I've…

The consulting firm McKinsey has a useful chart on health care spending.

Brad Delong, the economist and blogger at the University of California, Berkeley, has written a wonderful, brief piece on wealth, living standards,…

The headlines are saying the 3.8% decline in gross domestic product for the last quarter of last year isn't as bad as feared. That's cold comfort….

One way of looking at what is happening to the eocnomy is that people are adjusting their expectations, and that takes time….

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has created an interactive set of charts on Income inequality and mobility, 1994 to 2004. I just started to play…