Economy

While the mainstream media has long forgotten WikiLeaks and its release of United States Embassy cables, there is one key cable from December 2007 that ……Read More

The most recent plunge in oil prices caught most of the world by surprise, however, given the short-term market supply and demand fundamentals, a price ……Read More

A paper by Dowell Myers and SungHo Ryu at the University of Southern California looks at what could be the ultimate bursting of the housing ……Read More

There is an interesting leading economic indicator that gets very little attention from the mainstream media.  Most often, the mainstream media uses a combination of ……Read More

While consumer sentiment has, in general, been on the upswing since the Great Recession, as we can see in this chart from FRED, even at ……Read More

Hidden in the trillion dollar 1774 page spending cromnibus (continuing resolution and omnibus) bill pasted together by Congress to avoid yet another government shutdown was ……Read More