U.S. mortgage rates dip for first time in over a month Freddie Mac reports the 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.09% for the week ending May 9 — down from 7.22% last week. 05/12/2024 - 10:57 am | View Link
Coalition's super housing plan is a first home owners grant on steroids: Don't fall for it I have every sympathy for young people staring at the implacable cliff face of home prices and mortgage repayments ... 05/12/2024 - 10:14 am | View Link
How 5 N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Are Struggling With Climate Change New data projects are linking social issues with global warming. Here’s what that means for these New York communities. 05/12/2024 - 4:46 am | View Link
From a 65% stock market crash to an imminent recession, here's a roundup of recent high-profile bear forecasts While there's been a slew of bearish predictions over the past week, positive scenarios for the economy and markets remain. Choose your adventure. 05/11/2024 - 10:12 pm | View Link
It takes $349,200 income to buy an Orange County home, 3.5 times the US salary Orange Countians need 3.5 times the annual income of a U.S. homebuyer to qualify for a typical house. A homebuyer would have to make $349,200 to buy the county’s $1.37 million median-priced, existing ... 05/11/2024 - 12:44 pm | View Link
Giant heat pumps to turn retirement haven into one of Britain’s ... Giant heat pumps powering a district heating network could turn the retirement resort of Worthing, West Sussex, into one of the UK’s greenest towns under government plans. The £500m plan will ... 05/10/2024 - 1:39 pm | View Link
Britain is forgetting what it means to be a free country By downgrading freedom as a value, we’re choosing a false promise of ‘stability’ over dynamism and growth 05/10/2024 - 1:32 pm | View Link
These rail strikes are just a taste of life under Labour Commuters want to believe it can’t get any worse, but unions will sense the party’s weakness. Matthew Lynn 9 May 2024 • 5:48pm. 5. The service will always arrive on time... 05/10/2024 - 12:42 pm | View Link
It's no surprise that a generation of mummy's boys won't leave home If man-children refuse to grow up and seek pastures, perhaps parents ought to consider leaving the family home. Rowan Pelling 10 May 2024 • 6:00am. Before stay-at-home adult children, there were ... 05/10/2024 - 8:53 am | View Link
WPP boss Mark Read impersonated by AI in elaborate deepfake scam James Warrington 10 May 2024 • 12:47pm. Fraudsters used a digital imitation of WPP boss Mark Read in a video meeting in an attempt to dupe one of his colleagues Credit: Toby Melville/REUTERS ... 05/10/2024 - 8:10 am | View Link
As the Senate moves to consider banning forced arbitration in age-discrimination cases, it’s time for companies to act to support older workers.
For nearly 50 years, Joanne Grace served her Ohio community as a registered nurse and, later, as a patient advocate. She loved her job and her patients, who benefited tremendously from the care only someone with her deep experience can bring.
As the government opens up investigations into multiple companies developing autonomous vehicles, some wonder whether the tech can really be slowed down.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recently announced investigation into self-driving company Waymo is just the latest of many such probes.
Resilience is not something you have to practice or build. It’s not mental toughness or control. It’s not avoiding, denying, or fixing your feelings.
Opinions about resilience are like belly buttons—everyone has one. But whatever your view, there’s no denying we live in unprecedented times that require the best of us, which includes courage, clarity, compassion, and creativity.
In their new book, Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang explore what venture capitalists can teach us about working more efficiently.
“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities—and found no statues of committees,” proclaimed the famous British writer G. K. Chesterton. VCs are well aware of inefficiencies and biases in groups; they also know that these biases are particularly dangerous in a highly uncertain world.
The Vipp Pedal Bin has been reinterpreted by artists including Damien Hirst and Yoko Ono. Now, contemporary artist Alice Ronchi is putting her own spin on the classic.
In the vast, ancient world of product design, there’s one 85-year-old classic so iconic that it’s served as a muse for dozens of artists, including Bono, Yoko Ono, Yves Behar, and Damien Hirst.
Before the pandemic, Colorado recorded some of the strongest population growth in the country, with many newcomers settling in metro Denver and up and down the northern Front Range.
But the latest Census numbers, released Thursday, show 13 of the state’s largest towns and cities, defined as those with a population of 20,000 or more, have fewer people than they did on July 1, 2020.