Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Housing is not a right, it is a commodity The Eviction Lab stands out for ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

Trade remains a hot issue. China throws our country a bone by buying several shiploads of soybeans; the stock market reacts, or over-reacts, to news on the progress, or lack thereof, in U.S.-China ...

A couple weekends ago, friends and I were able to put together a trip to the Washington coast. The first day we were all together, the beach cabin we stayed in was thrashed by a beautiful storm that ...