Over the past twelve to eighteen months, we've seen increasing resistance by various groups throughout the United States and Canada to hydraulic fracturing.  One of North America's largest plays that requires hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) to produce economic volumes of oil is

The latest housing data release from the U.S. Census Bureau contains some interesting data on the housing and residential rental market in the United States.  For this posting, I will be concentrating on the data showing the homeownership landscape for the first quarter of

I have noticed that when politicians are confronted with bad polling numbers that they always use the "I don't believe in polls" or "We don't govern using polling numbers" excuse for ignoring what the electorate is trying to tell them.  Apparently, as in most

With Main Street America struggling to regain employment prospects lost during the Great Recession, it is intriguing to see how those who live in the "corporate clouds" have fared since the so-called recovery began four years ago.  A recently published interactive webpage by

An article by M Ayhan Kose, Prakash Loungani and Marco Terrones, all of the IMF, on the VOX website examines why this global recovery is different and why, despite the fact that we are four years into the recovery, has it been so weak compared to past post-recession recovery

A 2012 paper entitled "Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets" by the Bipartisan Policy Centre examines how growth in the number of seniors in the United States (and, for that matter, any developed nation with a large cohort of Baby Boomers) and how it will

Faced with sharply declining advertising revenue for both print and online newspapers, papers are trying to entice free readers to pay up for the news. It works partially: old people will pay anything to keep their news habit but young readers are already left the barn.

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