In Economist's View - Posted 4 days ago

An update on the state of the economy, a call for aggressive fiscal stimulus to sustain employment while the markets work off the aftereffects of the...

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In Big Picture - Posted 5 days ago

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (July 28 August 3, 2008)As oil prices seesawed through the past week, fresh uncertainty abo...

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In BusinessWeek Online -- Hot Property - Posted 1 week ago

Former Fed Chief Alan Greenspan sent the stock market into a tailspin this week after declaring home prices were nowhere near the bottom. Just a mon...

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In Bubble Meter - Posted 1 week ago

The Los Angeles Times describes how the decline of the housing bubble is affecting the upscale town of Temecula, California. The swimming pools of aba...

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In Bubble Meter - Posted 1 week ago

From July 28, 2005 exactly three years ago today. Neil Barsky, writing in the Wall Street Journal, insisted there was no housing bubble.If you want ...

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In Economist's View - Posted 1 week ago

Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Albert Saiz construct a model of housing bubbles that is consistent with movements in housing prices and quantitie...

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In Economist's View - Posted 2 weeks ago

Joseph Stiglitz says just say no to free lunches:Fannie s and Freddie s free lunch, by Joseph Stiglitz, Commentary, Financial Times: ...The US gov...

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In Bubble Meter - Posted 2 weeks ago

You can clearly see the effects of the housing bubble decline starting in 2006....

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In BusinessWeek Online -- Hot Property - Posted 2 weeks ago

I got this note today from a BW colleague who shall remain nameless:A few years ago, I ran into the real estate agent who sold me my apartment on the ...

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In Bubble Meter - Posted 2 weeks ago

From a paper written in May by Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy Research:The housing bubble in the United States grew up alongside the sto...

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