…us think of when we think of capital: machinery, equipment, structures (including infrastructure), and urban land. But that still left a lot of wealth to explain. “As soon as you…

…in covering children in families with incomes up to $83,000 per year, which isn’t true. The Urban Institute estimated that 70 percent of children who would gain coverage are in…

…at the Urban Institute. Such rates have not been seen since the mid-1960s, and most economists see them as impossible, if for no other reason than that the Federal Reserve…

Secretary Snow testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary on Wednesday: The economic indicators since the President signed the Jobs and…

…response to urban riots, thought this would be an imaginative cure: government creation of 2 million jobs. This at a moment when the unemployment rate was 3.7 percent. The 1930s…

…functionaries, in a recent interview with Southern Weekend newspaper. “Problems like the income gap, the rural-urban gap, corruption and so on, have begun to emerge quickly. How to solve these…

…Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics, Hass Business School, UC Berkeley): “This is frightening, frankly. I’m worried that more and more people are using (homes) as an investment vehicle…

Following up on yesterday’s PPI report, the BLS released its latest figures on consumer price inflation this morning: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent…

…inflationary January PPI number should be taken with a grain of salt. In the event, today’s CPI report will probably suggest the latter: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban…

…it was hard when staring at the surplus to argue that there shouldn’t be a tax cut,” said Mr. Reischauer, now president of the Urban Institute. “Of course there was…