Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Is the Housing Bubble Back? These Four US Cities Are in the Danger Zone
By Diana Olick, CNBCHome price gains are accelerating again, and in some cities those values are overheating. Four of the nation's largest cities are now considered overvalued, according to CoreLogic. Home prices in...
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The Most Outrageous Housing Market in America
By Ciro ScottiThere are overheated housing markets, and then there is the San Francisco Bay Area – that rarified piece of the planet that is the home of so many high-tech companies and the incubator for hundreds...
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Why the Housing Market Could Keep Rising for Years
By Janna HerronThe number of first-time homebuyers could increase by a third over the next five years, adding a big boost to the housing market and the broader economy, according to a new study. Credit reporting...
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Home Prices Hit an All-Time High: Is This Another Bubble?
By Janna HerronU.S. home prices set an all-time high in June, eclipsing the previous peak set nearly a decade ago. While the record may make homeowners feel house rich, the rate of appreciation in many markets may...
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The Economic Problem Americans Are Worried About but the Candidates Are Ignoring
By Kellie Lunney, Government ExecutiveSeventy-one percent of Americans think that affordable housing should be a main focus of the political parties’ platforms during the 2016 presidential campaign, and 74 percent said they are more...
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Why the Housing Market Will Boom Again
By Akin Oyedele, Business InsiderThe next housing boom will be triggered by millennials. Like older demographic groups, the lumped-together cohort of 20- and 30-somethings is interested in getting married, starting families, buying...
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The Oil Crisis Has Killed These Housing Markets
By Akin Oyedele, Business InsiderMost of the worst housing markets in America have one thing in common: oil. And markets in energy-producing areas make up most of the bottom-ranked parts of America. Related: Here’s a Sign the...
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Banks Got Bailed Out, Homeowners Got Sold Out — and the Feds Made a Killing
By David DayenThe government turned an unprecedented crime ring of systemic fraud into a piggy bank, without distributing its profits to the homeowner victims.
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Why Oil's Collapse Could Ultimately Be Worse than the Housing Crisis
By Mark Harrington, CNBCOil and gas companies borrowed heavily when oil prices were soaring above $70 a barrel. But in the past 24 months, they've seen their values and cash flows erode ferociously as oil prices plunge —...
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The Big Problem with ‘The Big Short’
By David DayenToo many crisis narratives write ordinary people out of the picture, which actually makes us more vulnerable to a replay. That’s especially true because the new dangers won’t come from the same place.
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Young Boomers Buying Up Retirement Homes Early
By Cnbc Staff, CNBCBuyers of all ages are flooding in to some retirement communities for great real-estate deals, since the price is right. Charlie Roque, for example, is 56 years old and works full-time. "This is my...
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New Housing Permits at Highest Level Since 2008
By Jason Lange, ReutersGroundbreaking to build homes rose in February and permits for construction climbed to their highest level since 2008, signs the housing market recovery is gathering steam. The Commerce Department...
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Want a Job? Be a Construction Worker
By Ernest Scheyder, ReutersOn Friday, jobs figures for February showed that there were 48,000 construction jobs created in the month, the most since March 2007, which was around the time the U.S. housing boom began to turn...
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Household Wealth Rises along with Consumer Confidence
By Alister Bull, ReutersIn a hopeful sign for consumer spending, the net worth of American households grew solidly during the fourth quarter of 2012. At the same time, U.S. household debt grew at its fastest pace since...
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How the Student Loan Crisis Hurts the Housing Market
By Cnbc Staff, CNBCThe staggering amount of outstanding student debt — nearly $1 trillion owed – is beginning to impede the U.S. economy as a whole, a new report from the New York Federal Reserve suggests, chiefly by...