The Federal Reserve did something for the first time in its history. It dropped its fed funds overnight rate—the overnight rate it lends to...

How close are home sales and housing values to "bottoming out"? This headline in a recent Business Week attempted to show that ho...

Now that we know this recession started in Dec. 2007, what are the various tools to help us climb out of it? We can look at the stimulus pa...

1 unit - $603,750 2 - $772,900 3 – $934,250 4 - $1,161,050 First, note the 2009 conforming loan limits for 1-4 residential owner and n...

An astounding thing happened in October. Both retail and wholesale prices fell record amounts, after having risen record amounts in the pre...

The glimmer of light that we saw several columns ago amid the economic doom and gloom may be getting brighter. I don’t say this as a contra...

The effectiveness of any further stimulus package will depend on where the money is spent. With the unemployment rate rising to 6.5 percent...