A recent speech by Ben Bernanke provides us with a look at the double-edged sword of his low interest rate policy from his perspective.   Let's open by looking at the yields on 10 year bonds for Germany, Canada, the United States,

We all know how this "recovery" has been a jobless "recovery" with approximately 12.3 million American workers still out of work four years into the "recovery".  (there, I got to use the word "recovery" three times in one sentence!)   As

While the unemployment picture has improved since the depths of the Great Recession, certain aspects of employment in America are still in terrible shape, none more so than the length of time that workers are unemployed.   Here's

At a recent conference held by the Hamilton Project, participants looked at various methods by which Washington could achieve fiscal balance.  One of the proposals by William Gale of the Brookings Institute and Benjamin Harris of the Urban Institute and Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center