Supply and Demand (in that order)

In April, I said that real GDP fell 1.0 - 1.5 percent 2008 Q4 - 2009 Q1. The -1.0 was based on an analysis of spending; the -1.5 on an anal...

We receive monthly housing data from a variety of sources, and some of the reports seem to conflict with others, so an understanding of the ...

Copyright, The New York Times Company As part of a public strategy to offset global warming, the president and Congress are considering poss...

The Case-Shiller house price index released today shows that housing prices fell 2 percent March - April 2009 (significantly more than const...

We expect people to retire later as a result of the stock and housing market crashes. This article explains how survey evidence indicates ...

In the New York Times Economix blog today, I discussed recent empirical findings that women have lost in relative happiness even while their...

Copyright, The New York Times Company Over the last couple of decades, professional achievements and pay have grown substantially for women ...

The Commerce Department reported this morning that housing starts were low in April. I also noticed last week that the BLS reported that ho...

The idea of smaller government is usually just textbook material. But Canada has actually done it -- look at the chart below from Cato (I fi...

The 1930s were different from today in many ways. But its hard to see those differences in this chart of monthly industrial production. In t...