My Two Cents

Congress and the White House moved with surprising speed (measured by Washington legislative time, of course) last month to pass a bill aimed at...

The stock market is down, Housing is down. David Rosenberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch, offers up this assessment:...

The economy is weak. We're probably in a recession. And it's hard to see the economy bouncing back anytime soon. I also expect it will take longer...

From economist Ed Yardeni's newsletter this morning:...

The stock market staged a stong sigh-of-relief rally on friday on news that Citigroup's $2.5 billion dollar loss was better-than-expected....

There's probably little that I and Kimberley Strassel, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, agree on when it comes to the economy and...

Right now, its popular to blame Greenspan and the Fed for what ails the economy. Just read the screeds coming out of the editorial page of the Wall...

The headlines are scary. U.S consumer prices soar. Consumer prices rise at an accelerated rate....

One way to track how the election is going is through political prediction markets. These futures contracts, which bet on the election outcome,...

Income inequality has worsened ovre the past three decades or so. Economists in the Global Economics Research area of UBS recently took a look ...