Browsing: Economy

In my review of Norbert J. Michel’s Crushing Capitalismwhich I quoted from yesterday, I didn’t have room to highlight 2…

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:Click on graph for larger image.• Housing Starts Decreased to 1.256 million…

In The Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam Smith used rules about writing as a metaphor for rules of conduct. He examines…

NY Fed, St. Louis Fed, GS tracking: Figure 1: GDP as reported (black), May Survey of Professional Forecasters (tan), GDPNow…

We often hear that the American dream is no longer achievable for a large fraction of Americans. Some of the…

by Calculated Risk on 6/19/2025 08:11:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Friday:• At…

Back in February, Donald Trump claimed that the European Union was formed to “screw the US” on trade.  With the…

Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Thursday: • All US markets will be closed in…

Public choice theory and its methodological-individualist foundations can be illustrated with a currently hot question: Will President Trump order an…

With industrial production, we have the following picture of series the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee focuses on: Figure 1:…