By: Mike_Whitney Ask your average guy-on-the-street ‘what caused the financial crisis’, and you’ll either get a blank stare followed by […]
Robert Shiller: ‘When I look around I see a lot of foolishness, and I can’t believe it’s not important economically’
By Neil Irwin, Washington Post, On Monday, the Nobel Prize committee awarded three American economists, Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, […]
Robert Shiller Destroys The Idea Of Investing In A Home
Robert Shiller, the Yale economist who nailed the housing bubble before it burst, was on Bloomberg Television with Trish Regan […]
The Next Great Bubble about to Collapse
Senator Orrin Hatch warns that the bubble has the power to “destroy the retirement savings of millions of Americans.” Famed […]
Buy Gold, Sell Oil
By Chris Mayer, Daily Reckoning, Yeah, yeah, I know…gold and oil are both hard assets, but that doesn’t mean they […]
Student Debt Is Stifling Home Sales
Grads with high debt can’t get mortgages, even if they can afford them—another block to a housing recovery By Bob […]
Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter
Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM | New York Times WASHINGTON — As […]