Take a look at most any financial news today, and you’ll see the word “bubble” bouncing around. There’s the possibility of a student loan bubble, an interest rate bubble driven by the Fed’s bond buyuo, and so on. And of course where there’s a bubble, there’s also a...
“Green” houses mean greenbacks for investors. Houses featuring environmentally friendly upgrades and energy-saving devices command higher prices, attract more affluent tenants, and improve neighborhoods. While going green may look expensive, a variety of perks are...
For many of the so-called “millennial” generation – newly graduated from college, or recent grads in the last five years or so – the old advice about getting a degree to get ahead just doesn’t apply. As more graduates are facing decades or more of student loan...
Over $3 trillion and counting. That’s the total so far of the Federal Reserve’s buyup of mortgage security bonds – a number that, as we discussed in a recent post, is raising alarms among senior representatives of regional Federal Reserve banks. Now, in another twist...
For every positive sign of a housing comeback, there seems to be a chorus of anxious market watchers ready to find ominous signs of a new collapse looming on the horizon. Those gloomy predictions may be overstating the concerns, but a number of financial analysts and...
