Life Imitates Art? Sales of Atlas Shrugged Mark Perry, Carpe Diem Hmmm, kind of sad really... Its a lot like closing the... More Unemployment Rising Fastest Among Unskilled As the economy slows and unemployment rises, sharp differences are emerging among... More Geography of the Mortgage Crisis, 2008 Although foreclosure rates are rising around the country, much of the growth in... More Behind Housing Bubble: Ownership By Age Home ownership rates rose rapidly during the housing bubble,... More The Economy Right Now: An Overview For the second month in a row, American consumers have surpassed analysts' predictions... More | China's Dubious Economic Miracle • • • • • • • • • Behind the statistics of economic prosperity, a nation divided and tormented.
The Coming Local Government Credit Crunch President Barack Obama's $3.6 trillion budget designates $36 billion for transportation infrastructure. State governors and legislatures should spend that money wisely -- and even more importantly, they should use the remaining $229... More The Inflation Danger Inflation is reigniting. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that consumer prices, which had declined from November and December, rose 0.4% between December and January, an inflation rate of 4.9% on an annualized... More Macroegonomics Christina Romer, the head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, is a liberal economist. The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin is a Democratic shrine. But on a September evening in 2007, Romer used that venue to deliver a... More Skyscrapers Are Green Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard. In Dr. Seuss' environmentalist fable, "The Lorax,"� the Once-ler, a budding textile magnate, chops down Truffula to knit "Thneeds."� Over the protests of the... More Ruling Imperils Market for New Drugs In Greek mythology, both Odysseus and Jason had to navigate the perilous waters between two the horrible sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis. Pharmaceutical manufacturers in America now face a similarly hazardous path - between... More |
