As the Texas floodwaters receded, politicians like Chuck Schumer twisted facts about the tragedy to score a political win. Examining what went wrong to prevent such tragedies from happening again is the right thing to do. But that involves looking ...
As the latest housing bubble pops, home sellers are asking for unreal prices for their homes, while buyers are waiting for the prices to fall. Bill Pulte—Trump‘s Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—is demanding the Fed force down interest ...
As the latest housing bubble pops, home sellers are asking for unreal prices for their homes, while buyers are waiting for the prices to fall. Bill Pulte, Trump’s Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is demanding the Fed force ...
” a return to near-zero rates ‘remains significant over the medium to long term…due to recent elevated uncertainty.'” In Fedspeak, “uncertainty” means “bad economy.” ...
The enormous surge in the national debt comes as Congress and President Trump approved the latest omnibus spending bill which included an increase to the debt limit of $5 trillion. (That’s the largest increase to the debt limit ever.) ...
While we often speak of measurements of inflation (such as “inflation went up by three percent”), in reality, one cannot accurately measure it, given official measurements consist of arbitrary weighted averages. It is better to see inflation as qualitative, not ...
While we often speak of measurements of inflation (such as “inflation went up by three percent”), in reality, one cannot accurately measure it, given official measurements consist of arbitrary weighted averages. It is better to see inflation as qualitative, not ...
Around 3.6 million households – just over 40% of mortgage holders – are likely to see their monthly payments rise over the next three years, according to the latest update from the Bank of England. The Bank’s Financial Stability Report ...
The floodwaters in Texas were just subsiding when Democrats claimed that the death toll was due to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service. Of course, the truth is much different, but this was just one more incident of how ...