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Eye on the Bond Market

…low. One possible explanation is that the signals that the bond market is sending have been somewhat distorted this year (i.e. not reflective of average market sentiment) because of the…

What’s Up With the Housing Market?

…in price. This is what a peaking market looks like. Declines in housing market activity start with the markets that have appreciated the fastest, and spread from there. By the…

Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel

by cactus Fuel and the Free Market: Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US When it Comes to Cars that Run on Something Other than Gasoline? In the last year…

Housing Update

…that many see as the first signs of the end to a housing bubble, not just in Australia, but also in the U.S. Baltimore Sun: Investors heat up housing market

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

No one would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of thinking small. The senator from Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate wants to transform one of the world’s most boisterous free-market economies into…