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.

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...

Most Americans have not experienced any significant decline in the value of their homes, nor are they likely to.

Legislation to raise the debt ceiling will give the government headroom to operate until 2013. But a temporary ceasefire in this fiscal war will not address the country's longer-run problems. The rating agencies are therefore justified in reconsidering America's triple-A credit rating.

Letter to the editor of Science magazinein response to claims of mercury's detrimental effects.