The current housing boom has Dallas solidly in its grip. As in many cities around the US, prices are soaring, buyers are going nuts, sellers…
Economy of the United States
Jeb Bush, one of the leading Republican candidates for the presidency, is in the news again—and not in a good way. During a meeting with…
The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life…
It’s starting to feel like we never actually emerged from the 2008 crisis: the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve simply threw $13 trillion at the…
Before the gale-force hurricane of Reaganomics swept through the United States in the 1980s, America very briefly entertained the adoption of a deliberate industrial policy.…
You may recall how in 2013 — and then again in 2015 — President Obama tried to give his economic vision a snazzy name, something…
Economic growth has bee at zero percent or lower for two or three years in a row in most of the western world. Cooked government…
Did you know that 89 percent of all minimum wage workers in the United States are not teens? At this point, the average age of…
Data released last week by the U.S. government showed the U.S. economy came to a near halt in the first three months of 2015, falling…
It may be fitting that the U.S.-funded Radio Liberty would be the latest media outlet to join in the bashing of an American academic who…
As I review the financials of one of the largest shale producers in the United States, Whiting Petroleum (WLL), I can’t help but notice the…
Surging student-loan debt represents a key risk to the economy’s expansion because wage gains are failing to keep up, according to Beth Ann Bovino, U.S.…