The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
Mark ZandiThey called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
Mark ZandiThe Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
Mark ZandiThere is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
Mark Zandi