Like Bryan, I received the same request from the same friend: what question(s) would I want to put on a survey of economists. . . .

A good way to assess this impact on risks is to look at the spread between interest rates on subordinated debt and senior debt at Fannie or Freddie. . . .

So when someone says the TARP was central to preventing disaster, don’t disagree. . . .

This is the second installment of a Monday series excerpting the chapter on political implications from Thomas Sowell's latest book, "The Housing Boom and Bust." . . .

Paul Rahe defends his position that President Obama’s health-care proposals “presuppose the administrative state’s assuming a power over our lives that is nothing less than tyrannical.” . . .

Economic historian Niall Ferguson is calling for the death of a monster he helped create. . . .

For years, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri criticized Iran’s supreme leader and argued that the country was not the Islamic democracy it claimed to be, but his words seemed to fall on deaf ears. . . .

The size and schedule of the U.S. team heading to North Korea on Dec. 8 and led by Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special representative for North Korea Policy, appears to some as rather “small” relative to the intense interest and large expectations surrounding the visit. . . .

In a dramatic about-face for a movement that a generation ago embraced a Cold War nuclear shield against the Soviets, evangelical Christians now are spreading the gospel of nuclear disarmament. . . .