As the housing market struggles to keep pace with economic recovery elsewhere, homeowners would love to have a crystal ball.  Absent that, however, they have AEI resident fellow Edward Pinto, one of seven panelists to be awarded with Zillow and Pulsenomics' Crystal Ball Award.

When confronted with a problem such as the one currently playing out in the housing market, policy makers are by nature oriented toward identifying and implementing a solution. However, government intervention should be reserved for market failures, and this is not one.

What should the objective of financial markets evolution beyond the Dodd-Frank Act be: making markets more robust, or democratizing and humanizing finance?

With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that our leaders, in both the Bush and the Obama administrations, responded to crises and challenges all too often with measures that attempted to revive the old pre-financial crisis economy rather than with policies that would allow a new economy to grow.

S&P lowered the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+ amidst concerns about the government's budget and the rising debt burden. Does this mean the United States is on the verge of default?

The spring 2008 expert pronouncements that the worst of the housing finance crisis was behind us now look similar to the spring 2007 declarations that the subprime debacle was contained. Returning panelists at this fourth conference in the Deflating Bubble discussion series have shown no such optimism. AEI scholar and...

Future stock and bond returns will have a direct impact on the personal accounts which are at the core of the proposed Social Security reforms. Critics are already arguing that an aging U.S. population will lead to lower economic growth and lower financial returns as well. At this event, Jeremy...

Nick Schulz reviews Animal Spirits.