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Is it a Good Time To Buy a Home?

By | October 26th, 2012|Categories: Econo-YOU, Growing Money, Shopping & Money|Tags: , , , , |

You bet! There's an easy secret economists use to read the real estate market and you can too. BY THE HOME ECONOMIST Tara Reid, take notes from the real estate market because home-buying is making a com There's an easy secret to seeing whether the real estate market is safe or dangerous. eback! (And [...]

Economists Care That Your Friends Will Be Buying New Vacuums

By | September 27th, 2011|Categories: Other People & Money|Tags: , , , , , , |

Here's A Peek at Other People's Shopping Plans Most of us think the job market is scary and our income outlook is bleak. So wouldn't you think we'd be clutching our cash tight in our worried little hands? We're not. It seems even more of us are planning to buy cars, homes, refrigerators, carpets and even more new vacuums (seriously? vacuums?) than in late 2007. And back then, our [...]