Financial FAQs Calculated Risk Blog It’s hard to reconcile the recent downgrade of US Treasury debt by Fitch Ratings, one of the thre...

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch The Labor Department’s February employment survey took place in the middle of February, ...

Popular Economics Weekly BEA.gov Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the fourth qu...

Financial FAQs Graph: MarketWatch The current debate whether the U.S. will escape the ‘new normal’ of slower economic growth...

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: FRED Why should historically low interest rates be a problem, you say?  Doesn’t that help con...

Popular Economics Weekly New Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has maintained that the Fed is on track to raise their short term ...

Financial FAQs Central Banks everywhere seem to be following our Federal Reserve in selling bonds they had accumulated to keep interest...

The Mortgage Corner The deficit is moving to the back burner with Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in charge of Washington, a...

We predict housing in 2016 continuing to grow the economy.   This is mainly because new-home construction should surpass 1 million u...

The Mortgage Corner Will new housing construction improve the very low inventory levels that are restricting housing sales? It is hard to ...

Financial FAQs Here is the underlying reason our economy isn’t growing faster, hence creating more jobs. Household debt hasn’t even declin...

The Mortgage Corner We think not.  Interest rates are rising, mainly due to some Fed Governors saying they may begin to end the QE3 purcha...

Popular Economics Weekly The February unemployment report gives a big boost to predictions for 2013 growth. The unemployment rate fell to ...

Financial FAQs The sequester advocates have gotten their way. The March 1 deadline has passed to reach an agreement to alter the across th...

Popular Economics Weekly The plunging financial markets are telling us something depression, but it is more about crowd psychology, than a...