Read the NBR team's thoughts about the challenges facing Barack Obama. Then post your comments.

The Worth of Infrastructure Projects

posted by Jeff Yastine, Correspondent on January 16, 2008

If you want to see how the folks "on the ground" would like to spend the billions of dollars in infrastructure money likely to be siphoned from the federal government's coffers, go to the US Conference of Mayors website, which contains the "wish list" of projects favored... + More

More on Obama from Economists Zandi and Shiller

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on January 16, 2009

I interviewed Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com and Robert Shiller of Yale for the NBR special "A Time for Change: The Obama Agenda," which we'll broadcast on Monday. Only a portion of Zandi and Shiller's analysis of Obama's economic strategy made it... + More

The Cost vs. Quality Quandary of Health Care

posted by Dana Bate, Field Producer on January 15, 2009

The health care crisis and Obama's plan to deal with it -- try covering that one in the space of 3 minutes! (That's all the time I had for my report in the "A Time for Change: The Obama Agenda" special.) Insurance, access to care, cost, and quality all factor... + More

Modifying Thoughts about Mortgage Loan Modifications

posted by Stephanie Dhue, Correspondent on January 13, 2009

There’s a growing political consensus that it was housing that got us into this mess and it will be housing that gets us out. The economy won’t recover as long as home prices continue to fall and more homeowners enter foreclosures. The numbers are staggering. An estimated 8 million homeowners... + More

Social Security Cash Flow Shows Why Obama Is Concerned About Entitlements

posted by Darren Gersh, Washington Bureau Chief on January 7, 2008

Let's just face the facts: we have squandered the opportunity to deal with our entitlement crisis when it was most opportune to do so. That would have been during a booming economy when the retirement of the baby boomers was still far in the... + More

A Dire Prediction for the Stimulus

posted by Scott Gurvey, New York bureau chief on January 6, 2009

There are not a lot of “experts” out there at the moment who are concerned that all the government actions to aid the ailing economy are only going to make the situation worse. Peter Schiff, Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital is one in a very small... + More