Economy


	What Do You Think of Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget Proposal? Read More »
	Are Home Prices Rising Or Falling? Depends Who You Ask Are home prices going up or down? Well, it just depends on what newspaper you read. Read More »
	Journalism's Generations of Change Being a great writer isn’t about manufacturing a product on an assembly line--it's 99 percent about being bold and determined. Read More »
	Shocker: Gallup Says Unemployed Are Discouraged Dig deeper, and some interesting findings emerge from the details of a recent Gallup poll on unemployment. Read More »
	Hey El Paso peeps, at Republic for a bit ... Come join me. Read More »
	Is the Economy Recovering or Getting Worse? Read More »
	Is Government Making it Worse? The Evidence Says No I appreciate Ewan’s response to my last post on how recessions are like fires that must be put out. But his post has left me confused, and—I’m sorry to say—more convinced that ideological opponents to fiscal... Read More »
	A Primer on Our Burning Economy The criticism of the stimulus package has revealed something that many of us in the policy world often suspected—most people still don’t understand recessions. Sure, they understand what they are. After all, they are... Read More »
	Social Security Is Officially in Deficits--And It's Only the Beginning. In an era of $2 trillion dollar federal budget deficits, another $10 billion deficit might not seem like that big of a deal. It’s practically a rounding error. Read More »