Housing

The President’s economic policy priorities

The President’s 2012 economic policy agenda emphasizes four policy challenges:

1. the loss of American manufacturing employment;
2. America’s dependence on oil;
3. America’s sub-par (my…

The 10 most important American economic policy issues of 2010

Here is my view of the 10 most important American economic policy issues of 2010.

1. The weak U.S. macroeconomy

The President discusses housing in Albuquerque

Yesterday the President spoke about the economy at a “backyard discussion” in Albuquerque. He made some interesting comments on housing which I’m going to analyze today.

Should taxpayers subsidize underwater homeowners?

This is shocking:

The Obama administration will announce a major new stock market initiative on Friday that will directly tackle the problem of the millions of Americans who lost money betting on stocks. The government…

The FCIC needs to analyze the failure of Fannie & Freddie

Today was day one of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings. After eight hours of hearings I have a lot of subject matter but little time for writing. So I want to highlight one important point, with more to come over…