Breaking News: Gov’t Agency Helped Housing Market in Downturn
I’m talking about the Federal Housing Administration, over at the NYT Economix blog.
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Guideposts on the Road Back to Factville, 2013 Edition
Last year around this time I posted my ten favorite graphs from my prolific colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It’s tough to make the cut. If I may be permitted—and I’m...
View ArticlePrincipal Reduction is Still a Good Idea
I’ve been downright remiss in not continuing to hammer this point, as was my wont months back. Thankfully, this nice oped in this AM’s NYT reminds us that this is still an important intervention to...
View ArticlePutting the Dismal Back in Econ
I’m hearing a fair bit of optimism re the current economy. Many of the folks with whom I interact on this stuff are feeling better about where things are headed, with unemployment down, households...
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Diagnoses and Prescriptions: The Great Recession
There’s a very interesting, albeit down-in-the-weeds, analytic debate brewing around a confluence of recent publications. Tim Geithner’s new book defends the interventions of the Treasury Department...
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The Current Economy: Green Shoots or Brown Ones?
I was listening to an interview with Tim Geithner this weekend, and after going through his (highly readable) new book, they asked him where he thought the economy was headed. “I don’t believe...
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Inequality and the Housing Market
I wrote the other day that there’s an important regional dimension to the recovery of the housing market, and that localities that are doing well “look to me to be the ones with more income and job...
View ArticleBaltimore and Race-based Residential Segregation
While the protests and riots in Baltimore in recent days were critically triggered by yet another death of a young black man interacting with the police, there are of course many other forces at work....
View ArticleKids stuck in the basement? Here’s why.
Over at PostEverything, with some pretty striking graphics.
View ArticleNot every door is a revolving door: Housing finance, GSE reform, and the NYT
As a financial-markets-muckraker for the New York Times, Gretchen Morgenson provides an important and valuable service, especially when you consider the depth of muck in that sector in recent years....
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