One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the... →
Fareed Zakaria
Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down... →
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of... →
Geoffrey Zakarian
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s... →
Mark Zandi
Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across... →
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that... →
The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also... →
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the... →
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill