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Our 5 Boldest Views of 2023

Buy or Rent?

A Renter’s Paradise—but for how Long?

Growing Pains for Home Prices

This bird is cooked

How to Make Great Charts

A 9-Second Reader Poll

Does it Make More Sense to Buy or Rent?

Another Reason Mortgage Rates will Fall

A Smaller “Term Premium” means Lower Mortgage Rates

Mortgage rates are set to fall

Introducing Home Economics

Zillow launches 1% downpayment mortgages. What could go wrong?

Welcome to Home Economics

Millennials and Boomers are Competing for Homes. Guess Who’s Winning.

Visualizing Home Sales

Why Denmark's Housing Market Works Better than Ours

One Explanation for Booming US Growth

Subscriber Data Sets and Models

Home Price Whiplash

Inventory Squeeze to get even Squeezier

Expensive Housing is a Secular Trend, not a Cyclical One

The Monstrous Share of Housing in the Household Budget

Does seasonality still matter for housing?

The Outlook for Home Sales

Will rising home construction lead to lower prices?

From Subprime to Superprime

Everywhere you go, always take your mortgage with you

No homes for sale

Mortgage lock-ins: move it and lose it

After booming home prices, a small correction

Waiting for Home Prices to Fall? Don't Hold Your Breath

Inflation, How Do I Measure Thee?

Banks grow less willing to lend, boosting the odds of a recession

A soft landing is more likely after last week's jobs data

We’ve been arguing about deposit insurance for 200 years

Deposits should be safe. Insure them without limit.

How did SVB slip through regulators' fingers?

What happened to SVB, in pictures

Are higher wages driving inflation, or only reacting to it?

Britain faces a deep freeze in living standards

Unpeeling an Inflation Conundrum

Does it matter that central banks are losing squillions?

Where are all the workers?

And now, a cartoon about monetary policy

The Uneasy US Housing Stalemate