Author Archives: John Rutledge

(January 31, 2007) – The December New Home Sales report, released by the U.S. Census Bureau earlier this week, was butt-ugly. Sales of new one-family houses in December 2007 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 604,000. This is … Continue reading →

When a journalist asked me what was the most noteworthy feature of last week’s State of the Union message, I told him “that it was so civilized.” The people in the room had sharp differences over economic policy, foreign policy … Continue reading →