Financial FAQs What is American Socialism that candidate Bernie Sanders has talked about ever since he has been running for Pres...

Financial FAQs The best news of last week was the ‘Yuge’ jump in consumer spending and manufacturing, which should signal a Yuge jump i...

Gross domestic product — the value of everything a nation produces — expanded at a 0.7 percent annual rate from October to December. That’...

The economy produced 292,000 jobs in the final month of 2015, the Labor Department said Friday. Pundits had predicted a 200,000 plus incre...

Popular Economics Weekly The Federal Reserve didn’t raise interest rates today at the close of their FOMC meeting. In fact the 9-1 vote a...

The Mortgage Corner The strength of the economy right now is in the housing and construction sectors, again areas insulated from global fa...

Financial FAQs The U.S. economy grew at a faster 3.7 percent annual clip in the second quarter, up from the initial estimate of 2.3 percen...

Popular Economics Weekly Barron’s economist Gene Epstein forecasts the possibility tomorrow’s Q2 GDP growth could be revised from 2.3 to 3...

The Mortgage Corner The mellennial generation, now aged 18 to 36 years, are beginning to drive higher birth rates. And that means more hou...

Financial FAQs Although economists haven’t yet begun to crunch the numbers, Iran’s agreement not to produce atomic weapons or weapon-grad...

Financial FAQs Should we push back the first Fed rate hike to the presidential election year of 2016, because of June's softer-than-ex...

Financial FAQs The consensus of economists from Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen’s press conference was that the Fed is in no hurry to raise i...

Financial FAQs We still see no signs of inflation, in spite of the oil price hikes. The latest sign is the wholesale Producer Price Index ...

Popular Economics Weekly Today’s unemployment report is gangbusters, as I predicted , with employment returning to pre-recession levels. T...

Popular Economics Weekly It looks like the April unemployment report out on Friday could be gangbusters. Not only because U.S. winters hav...

Popular Economics Weekly “Economic activity was suppressed in the first quarter due largely to the West Coast port disruptions and diff...

Popular Economics Weekly We are in the midst of celebrating the 50 th anniversary of President Johnson’s Great Society, enacted for the m...

The Mortgage Corner Record low interest rates are holding, in spite of the latest stock market selloffs, and may remain low throughout 201...

Popular Economics Weekly We are already getting predictions on the upcoming (Friday) U.S. unemployment report. If in line with last year’s...