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  • Aug 8, 2008

    Is It Fair? No.

    Congress and the White House moved with surprising speed (measured by Washington legislative time, of course) last month to pass a bill aimed at…

  • The stock market is down, Housing is down. David Rosenberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch, offers up this assessment:…

  • The economy is weak. We're probably in a recession. And it's hard to see the economy bouncing back anytime soon. I also expect it will take longer…

  • Jul 22, 2008

    The Lost decade?

    From economist Ed Yardeni's newsletter this morning:…

  • The stock market staged a stong sigh-of-relief rally on friday on news that Citigroup's $2.5 billion dollar loss was better-than-expected….

  • Jul 18, 2008

    The Airlines

    There's probably little that I and Kimberley Strassel, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, agree on when it comes to the economy and…

  • Right now, its popular to blame Greenspan and the Fed for what ails the economy. Just read the screeds coming out of the editorial page of the Wall…

  • The headlines are scary. U.S consumer prices soar. Consumer prices rise at an accelerated rate….

  • One way to track how the election is going is through political prediction markets. These futures contracts, which bet on the election outcome,…

  • Income inequality has worsened ovre the past three decades or so. Economists in the Global Economics Research area of UBS recently took a look …

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