Since the beginning of the subprime meltdown, policymakers, housing experts, and economists have been looking for data that would enable them to predict housing price declines for individual states and for the nation as a whole. To date, no academic study has offered a quantitative basis for evaluating the potential...

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.

Stimulus measures may boost the economy enough to provide liftoff, but if they fail to produce lasting growth, 2012 could be painful.

If the source of our economic problems is the housing glut, why not save money on the stimulus and buy up (and demolish) excess housing stock? Call it "exurban renewal."

The damage to the public financesresulting fromthe financial crisis will require the scaling back of aspirations in other areas of fiscal policy.

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

Hank Paulson's tenure as Treasury secretary has been highly unfortunate for both the U.S. and global economies.

The quick fixes that have characterized government's approach to job creation have failed. We must get back to balancing the budget and reducing taxes on small businesses.