CNN/Money reports: On average, homeowners have 56.3 percent equity in their homes, according to Demos, a public-interest research group. In 1973, equity averaged 68.3 percent; in the 1950s, it was…

…One, a St. Louis-based cooperative of 60 mortgage companies that originate home-equity lines, including some that feature 100 percent loan-to-equity ratios. “As long as the bubble doesn’t burst, there should…

…Some economists have argued that investing part of the Social Security Trust Fund in equity is simply a rearrangement of paper assets without any real allocational effects, and they have…

Lifted from comments at Naked Capitalism, September 21, 2013 at 4:33 am Henry Maxey in April 2007. This is frigging amazing work, and by an equity analyst, working at a…

…today to compensate future individuals for climate damages that they bear. The Kaldor-Hicks test presumably allows the analyst to set equity considerations aside while evaluating the economic efficiency. Does it?…

…are not theft. Insurance companies must have equity and investors demand high returns on equity. However, it is also a fact that public sector bureaucrats are paid much less than…

…provide the same or more reward or equity as EITC but are regarded as an economic distortion of actual market wages themselves set by some version of actual labor productivity….

…behavior that led to the 2008 crash.” Sec 956 allows lenient bonus deferrals, weak stock-based pay restrictions, and discretionary enforcement left to bank managers. Close the hedge and private equity…

…worse problems. It is possible to understand the effect of home equity on liquidity constraints — people with negative home equity (underwater mortgages) can’t get home equity loans. Unfortunately, the…

…rates declined. By 1995 the spousal avenue peaked. Borrowing against stock prices ended in 2000. Borrowing against home equity ended in 2006. When interest rates failed to make new lows,…