Financial FAQs “ Why are we the only developed country without universal health care, tuition free public college, mandated paid vacation...

  Popular Economics Weekly I don’t believe Wall Street investors are irrationally exuberant at present, contrary to those that say we are ...

Popular Economics Weekly thesocialhistorian.com We are now in a full-blown “Age of Anxiety”; not the first, of course. There ...

Popular Economics Weekly Dryuz.com Americans’ confidence in their future is sinking fast as they decide who to trust during t...

Financial FAQs MarketWatch Consumer sentiment is plunging.  And why not? With an additional 6.6 million initial unemployment ...

Popular Economics Weekly W rightson/ICAP Yes, says behavioral economist Robert Shiller, who won his Nobel prize for the st...

Financial FAQs Amazon Thinking, Fast and Slow ; what else should Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman be noted for, the son of Lith...

Calculated Risk The best picture we have of current and future job trends is the Labor Department’s JOLTS report (i.e., Job Open...

Financial FAQs Pundits and stock traders seem to believe Friday and Monday’s stock “massacre” was caused by too-quick trigger fingers—...

The Mortgage Corner With all the bad news coming from the stock market, it’s good to know that this hasn’t affected the housing market. In...

The Mortgage Corner--II As if to confirm U.S. housing starts and building permits’ jump to their highest levels in nearly 7-1/2 years, the...

Popular Economics Weekly Nobelist Robert Shiller , winner of the Nobel for his research in Behavioral Economics, or the psychology that dr...

Popular Economics Weekly We already have an idea of what will happen in 2015. Firstly, job creation should continue to exceed 300,000 payr...

Financial FAQs Friday’s U.S. unemployment report might have been an aberration due to the severe winter with just 74,000 nonfarm payroll j...

Popular Economics Weekly Although much of what Yale economist Robert Shiller writes is about the importance of financial markets, he won t...

The Mortgage Corner In spite of warnings from such as Robert Shiller of Irrational Exuberance fame that housing values could remain stagna...