Secrets of the Housing Boom and Bust

Who was really responsible for the catastrophic hosing collapse of 2008? According to celebrated economist Thomas Sowell, there’s plenty of blame to go around – and both Wall Street and the government share responsibility for the boom and spectacular bust. In a chat...

Who Benefited Most From QE3?

The official end of the Federal Reserve’s third round of Quantitative Easing came in October 2014, and as the dust settles, financial experts are still debating just who benefited the most from that massive economic boost – and it may not have been US consumers. It’s...

Red State, Blue State: Who Wins in Housing?

And you thought there was just one US housing market. Turns out, there are many regional versions that make up the national market whose ups and downs are being closely monitored after the massive collapse of a few years ago. And not all those markets are behaving the...

Does a College Degree Guarantee More Money?

The looming student debt “bubble” has undergone some much-publicized comparisons to the housing bubble that burst so spectacularly a few years ago. Now, though, a new study suggests that across the board, college graduates earn a hundred percent more than their peers...

Effects of the Fed’s Stimulus Go International

The Federal Reserve’s stimulus plan was designed to improve conditions at home. But now that the Fed is moving forward with tapering it down in 2014, a meeting of the world’s leading monetary policy makers in Sydney points up the international effects of the massive...