Home prices rose in 67 of 151 U.S. metropolitan areas in Q4, said the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Thursday. Furthermore the association pointed to a “broad stabilization” of values across the country.
The median price for single-family home resales was up from a year earlier in over 44% of the areas included in the [...]

Ilana Mercer concisely and elegantly makes a point that I’ve been harping on among big-L Libertarians for some time.
“Targeted tax credits” aren’t “incremental moves toward liberty,” they’re just social engineering — shifting the tax burden from those who spend their money the way bureaucrats decide they should spend it, and onto those who spend their [...]

President Barack Obama pressed forward with his job-creation proposals on Tuesday. Specifics included a hiring tax credit to businesses and other stimulus components. Further, those stimulus programs that he believes have worked best thus far, he would like to extend or amplify.
Thus far the existing stimulus efforts have taken an abysmal rate of 700,000 jobs [...]