More than 70% of recent home buyers were counting on mortgage rates to drop. Now they’re stuck.
Refinancing to a lower rate isn’t an option for many homeowners, who now face “financially unsustainable” mortgage payments.
Refinancing to a lower rate isn’t an option for many homeowners, who now face “financially unsustainable” mortgage payments.
European Union antitrust regulators said on Wednesday they had signed off on Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The approval, which included concessions made by Paramount, comes as the deal has been delayed in the U.S. due to concerns raised by state attorneys general. A Paramount spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to comment. In…
Published for the Treasury Select Committee
We study whether information frictions about the relative effectiveness of study methods distort students’ effort allocation. Standard models treat effort as a single input whose level, rather than composition, determines outcomes. We instead model effort as an allocation across methods with heterogeneous effectiveness. Combining panel surveys, administrative records, digital activity logs, and a randomized information…
Trump: If Iran fires at a ship, the US will bomb a bridge/power station. Crude oil remains elevated. !“#$%&‘()*+,–./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|} !“#$%&‘()*+,–./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}
Oil prices spiked on Tuesday to above $87/barrel: their highest levels in more than a month as the U.S. announced it would impose a naval blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. The move is in response to Iran’s attacks on regional U.S. allies and passing ships traversing the Strait. A return of higher…
Imagine AT&T joined a coalition building an alternative to Verizon‘s network. Then Verizon invested $2 billion in AT&T. After that, Verizon asked AT&T to make its devices and network infrastructure compatible with Verizon’s network, too. That sounds strange. Why invest in a company helping build an alternative to your own network? A version of that…