WASHINGTON — Living in an outlying Chicago suburb, Jeff Wehrli recalls a heady time not too long ago when city dwellers poured in and developers...

How to cure the record income inequality that has resulted from so much power going to Wall Street and the corporations? At least, let us return to the income tax brackets that brought so much prosperity to the middle class during the 1960s and 1970s. What were they?

Believe it or not, times are getting better. Some homebuilding picked up, but no fix emerged for the housing crisis. At least that's what the dry ...

A strange thing happened in Chicago. An audience of well-heeled professionals, a mixture of Democrats and Republicans, packed a room to hear Robert Shiller give a presentation on the housing market. At the end of the presentation, there was a bi-partisan revolt.

As Yale University economists gathered on Thursday evening to discuss job growth strategies, many warned that a failure to act aggressively risks the ...

There are two facts about our current economic situation that can no longer be denied: Our economy is in desperate need of government stimulus, and ou...

It is a struggle between those who have already entered the 21st century and those who are holding back because they are fearful of its faster pace, or have a great nostalgia for a much simpler, older America.

On the surface, quantitative easing sounds like a great idea. This is a flawed policy based on the misguided belief that a rising stock market will boost economic activity.

NEW YORK - Recent housing and employment data suggests the U.S. economy is at a tipping point where a double-dip recession is possible and home pr...

The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph....

By Catherine Mulbrandon VisualizingEconomics.com Our homes have changed in many ways over the last 70 years, including homes size, building technolo...

Yale President Richard Levin, who is reportedly being considered for an economic post in the Obama administration, believes the government should give...

This post has been updated. Big businesses have made "wish lists" for legislation they hope the now even more divided Congress will consider, the Wal...

The Dodd-Frank financial reform law does not solve the problem of "too big to fail," the implicit government protection of large financial institution...

How much of an impact the stimulus has actually had on unemployment so far, though, gets overlooked in the dueling prophecies. But straightforward ...

Protracted unemployment is eating away at millions of people. And the economy's failure to create enough jobs for them is part of a vicious circle tha...

The New York Times more or less pronounced the single family home dead as an asset this week. Data from the National Association of Realtors and the F...

Buried amidst the increasingly gloomy economic news of the last few weeks -- which includes stubbornly high unemployment, rising foreclosures and a gr...

First the bad news: a growing number of economists suggest the U.S. has significant chance of falling into another recession -- and today's GDP number...

(Reuters) - The state of the economy is worrisome and there is a high possibility of a double-dip recession, one of the property market's most well-kn...

When it comes to market bubbles and how they are created, very little, if anything, has changed. This is because human psychology has not changed. Mas...