The economy is barely crawling along. A recent downward revision in the country’s gross domestic product shows that current economic activity is still below the recent past cyclical peak, achieved in late 2007, even though the country added more than 10 million people in the workforce age range.

Without economic growth, the large budget deficit and debt problems will...

The first quarter ended with decent home sales activity, but the rest of the year should be even better. Here's why.

Thanks to population growth, the number of home owning households in our country normally rises by about 1 million each year. But economic conditions will sometimes throw a hurdle in the way of that.

Amid all the news coverage about how the housing market is still in the tank, there’s one piece of news that seems to have escaped most commentators: Housing is at its most affordable level in decades.