So the Dow Jones Industrials fell 416 points today, which sounds like an awful lot, but really isn’t anymore. On Black Monday in 1987, a 508 point drop amounted to 23% of the Dow’s value. Today’s drop was just over 3%. Still, there’s reason for there to be worry in the air. None other than [...]
A reader in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, sent me a letter (on paper! with a written in pen!) in response to my column a few weeks back about northern Virginia’s astounding, taxpayer-funded prosperity (“The Federal Job Machine“). Apparently Oshkosh Truck Corp., maker of “the world’s toughest specialty trucks and truck bodies,” is doing famously these days, thanks [...]
We’re more than five years into the current economic expansion, which means it’s entirely natural that we ought to be worrying about when it might end. This expansion has already lasted longer than most of its post-World War II counterparts, after all. Last year a few economists predicted that falling housing prices might send us [...]
