Tag: recession

What we're really creating is a dollar bubble. It's a short-term phenomenon because traders are no stupider than home buyers. ...

The answer is to start paying down debt. The answer is to start producing more goods. The answer is to ...

So we'll have an alternative energy boom, then a drop in the oil price, and only then does the real ...

The best argument for a general U.S. recession is this. The U.S. consumer has been pulling the world economic train ...

Imagine, if you will, finding yourself tied up in knots when the tsunami warning goes up. If you're really lucky, ...

A $100 million "jumbo" mortgage bond will have sub-prime notes mixed in with the good stuff, and there's no way ...

China has a crying need to spend on technology to deal with its pollution problem, and with the general problem ...

If some small-timer cons you out of your life savings, if they claim to be something they are not, they ...

Rising foreclosures means there is more housing inventory in the "motivated seller" category -- banks and county governments are always ...

What's different this time? Pollyanna, I think. A willful suspension of belief in reality on many levels -- politically, in ...