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Geithner’s Thoughts About Asset Prices

…which asset prices should be a factor in the conduct of monetary policy that was subtly but significantly different from the views offered by Greenspan and Bernanke over the past…

House Prices

…talk about national house prices, as housing markets are quintessentially local. Looking at individual markets, it seems that prices in some continued to boom. But those markets that were the…

High Housing Prices are Here to Stay?

…in housing prices. The bubble types argue that housing prices exceed what the fundamentals would suggest. The fundamentalists, which seems to include Bowyer, are arguing that the high housing prices

What’s Causing High Gasoline Prices? The US Senate Republican Policy Committee has spent some time and effort investigating the cause of rising gasoline prices. Yesterday they published a policy report…