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Never underestimate the power of free money

Sheila Bair’s Awkward, Not At All Funny Suggestion To Save America

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, former FDIC chair and perpetual-pain-in-Bernanke's-backside Sheila Bair takes some stabs at the Fed's Easy Money For Everyone plan to get our economy chugging back to life and, in the process, makes the entire thing really, REALLY awkward. Cue crickets. Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are […]

Putting the Success of the Homebuyer Tax Credit in Perspective

“Yes, it is a success, if the objective was to demonstrate that people will take free money if you give it to them.”

Joe Kristan, explaining the success of the homebuyer tax credit program, which ends today.