“Job Market’s 2.6 Million Missing People Unnerves Star Harvard Economist,” (msn.com), Ben Steverman  Originally in a comment in this post Discussion on Solutions to Social Security, Angry Bear. The number…

…a clearer view and a hint of an outcome. Read on . . . Existing home sales try to find a bottom, while severe bifurcation with new home market continues…

…market is continuing, as lower mortgage rates help in the sales of new homes, which has helped drive down demand somewhat for existing homes, which in turn has led to…

…point out, prices follow sales, and this year we have seen a pronounced downturn in permits, starts, and units under construction, as well as new home sales. The market typically…

 – by New Deal democrat Something not just unusual, but unprecedented has happened in the bond market this year. Normally, when an inverted yield curve (where earlier maturing bonds yield…

…the public understands: big financial services malefactors are virtually “untouchable”: Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan): “I believe in a free market. But if it’s going to be truly free, it cannot…

…that state courts, unlike the two other branches of state government—the executive and legislative branches—are free to ignore constitutional rights, because otherwise the federal government (the federal courts) would be…

…the deficit and what is at stake. In the book, Faux points out that the theoretical benefits of free trade assume full employment, but that is hardly ever the case….

…losers are ordinary working folks. So when “free trade” and “free markets” are really stand-in phrases covering a fundamental facilitation of the unfettered ability of high-net-worth investors to cannibalize the…

…to suggest that the “move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism” is proof that inequality hasn’t exploded in the reaganomics era because inequality should have led to “beleaguered…