The housing market is in bad shape, and some people want the government to fix it. But does anybody really think it’s worth spending $121,000 for each additional sale we generate?

The $8,000 credit for first-time home buyers is about to…

A paper presented yesterday at the Brookings Institution contains some ego-bolstering news for 53-year-old financial bloggers like yours truly: People make better financial decisions at my age than at any other. Authors Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson write:

In a…

A discussion of children’s issues was about the last thing we expected at a retirement seminar. But Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says America can’t address the concerns of the older generation without affecting the youngest generation, too:

It’s children who…

The stock market gave a big thumbs-down today to Timothy Geithner’s revamped bank-bailout plan. Douglas Elliott, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, isn’t a big fan of the bailout either.

Specifically, he doesn’t like the “bad bank” that would use…