There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.