TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

 Here's what the ring leader of Tom Nichols' vaunted expert class of economists had to say at the time: Some, however, have invoked...

Everywhere we turn we hear the opposite. It's standard operating procedure to blame protectionism for the Great Depression. Shiller kn...

Here , in The New York Times: There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. That is troubling, because t...

Catherine Rampell for WaPo puts the long term real compound annual gain from housing at 0.3%. For the 100 years up to 1990, i.e. before the ...

And the famous Robert Shiller really doesn't care, here : Consider Switzerland, which by several accounts has had one of the lowest rate...

So warns Robert Shiller, here : "Home prices look remarkably stable when corrected for inflation. Over the 100 years ending in 1990 — b...

The estimable Robert Shiller wants the problem to be insufficient demand, when the real problem is everyone in government is doing everythin...

From Jack Hough for The Wall Street Journal, here : The plain old trailing P/E—the one that suggests stock prices are normal—is at least bas...

Very thoughtful and wise words of warning today, making sense of the nonsense, from Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture. For the original...