The 18-year real estate cycle continues to march on right on schedule.

With the elimination of taxes on wages, sales, buildings, and entrepreneurial profits, the economy would take a quantum leap up to dazzling productivity

In the fall of 2007, Freddie Mac, the second largest housing finance company, was hit by a $2 billion quarterly loss

There is a way to stop the business-cycle boom bubble, but it requires radical changes in economic policy that no one seems willing to confront.

Subprime Loans, Subsidized Land, and Manipulated Money

The fundamental causes of the Panic of 1907 were the flawed monetary and fiscal systems of the United States

The bear will devour us with falling stock markets, folks losing their homes, loans in default, business shut downs, and job losses

Because few speculators and investors understand the real-estate cycle and its relation to the business cycle, they have great uncertainty about where the economy is headed

If the minimum wage is beneficial, logic tells us that minima will benefit us in all these other areas also

Anywhere government officials see money flowing, they have a compulsion to tax it. Their motto is, “tax anything that moves.”

There are already recessions in two key industries, residential real estate and automobile manufacturing

Austrian school analysis shows that any interference or control of money by a central bank or government agency will distort the interest rate and cause economic waste

With increased autonomy and now independence, the government of Montenegro has enacted a policy of the privatization of the previously socialist economy

Liechtenstein has remained free and at peace in a world that has suffered from continuous war for the last 200 years

To have a maximally prosperous economy and eliminate depressions, we also need to attend to money and banking

In 2020, the complexity of income and sales taxes will no longer benefit anybody, so they will be scrapped and replaced by a single tapping of site values

Fannie Mae has been in the news recently, as its executives manipulated the company's accounting to fulfill goals that awarded large bonuses