What we have to do as a nation is to step back and look at the economics of the situation and decide whether it?s worth it to keep all of that infrastructure there.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

Any significant weakness in the housing data would be dollar negative suggestive of a slowing economy, thus reducing the amount of monetary tightening required from the Fed.

The major risk to the global economy is complacency. We cannot keep thinking that we can shrug off the deficit and the property bubble.

They are saying the economy is going to slow and that there’s no inflation but that we still need to raise rates. Investment professionals worry that the Fed will go too far and grind the...