…home prices are at an extreme beyond even the peak of the housing bubble, while existing home prices are about 5% under theirs but unlike then, when apartment vacancies were…

…telling us – with a delay – that prices did not peak during the spring.  Remember that the median price for new homes appears to have peaked in April (below…

…inflation) real aggregate payrolls must necessarily peak. Here’s the historical 60 year graph of that: Again, there is a perfect record, with peaks on average about 6 months before the…

…life expectancy for a 65-year-old U.S. male has never been above 2019’s 18.2 years, there is a distinct if moderate chance that one or both candidates will die before November….

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…roles such as spouses, parents, community members, and employees. For example, if a person dies at age 50, and life expectancy at age 50 is more 25 years, then the…

By One Salient Oversight Summary: Oil prices are dropping as demand destruction bites. But that doesn’t invalidate Peak Oil. Supply limits will continue to exist even when oil prices and…

…real terms compared with income mortgage payments are still well below their level at the peak of the housing bubble. Since the peak of the housing bubble in roughly September…