With a new Administration in the wings, and the financial crisis, if not resolved, somehow moving into a state where we can think about something besides today's Dow Jones, thought leaders are starting to emerge with suggestions on lessons learned and what to fix.  Some of the most interestin ... Read more

The experts at S&P/Case-Shiller make a valuable data set of housing prices available online here.  By chance or design, their index uses January 2000 as a baseline ("100" on the index), and that is just about the tipping point where houses went from being a boring asset class ... Read more

There's a great deal of uproar , most of it merited, about the contribution of subprime mortgages and securitization to the collapse of global markets.  It's not hard to describe in hindsight -- too much credit splashed around too generously to borrowers (individuals, companies, countries) u ... Read more