Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has a critical choice to make if he is confirmed by…
Housing is center stage in the news and around the water cooler again, with newspaper and magazine stories dissecting minute fluctuations in home prices and…
Writing for US News & World Report, Jason Gold notes that the Federal Housing Administration is outperforming most analysts expectations. Normally a small part of…
It’s that time of year again – tax time – when Americans are reminded of everything that’s wrong with the federal tax system. It is fiendishly complicated. It…
They may be in federal conservatorship, but a funny thing is happening to the two “troubled” mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: They are…
The Conservative Political Action Conference, a kind of annual camp meeting for the American right, opens in Washington today amid controversy over who’s in the…
If Rep. Paul Ryan was chastened by his 2012 election defeat, it doesn’t show in his latest budget. It’s a defiant reaffirmation of libertarian dogma…
The housing bubble and ensuing financial crisis not only wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, but it also shook public confidence in financial markets and…
Writing for US News & World Report, Jason Gold argues that despite conservatives and progressives’ demand for a reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,…