Home prices cautiously climbing: What to watch for in the May 2025 Case-Shiller report

by Cherry Salazar | May 24, 2025 | Economy, Featured, Housing, Newest

Home prices are expected to continue to rise, but at a slower pace, in the upcoming S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index, to be released Tuesday. Bloomberg estimates a 3.5% annual gain in March, easing from the previous month’s 3.9%. The indicator, which...

New entrepreneurs aren’t backing down, even as economic anxiety grows

by Sami Marshak | May 22, 2025 | Economy, Featured, Newest

Business formations were up 5.6% in March 2025 from the same time last year, and up 50% from 2019.   Nothing was going to stop Janell Borrero from starting her self-financed company, Money Pop in 2025, not even the Trump administration’s economic policies, which...

Could Trump’s Tariffs Slow AI Growth?

by paige.oamek | Apr 7, 2025 | Economy, Featured, International Trade, Newest

President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to lead the world in artificial intelligence. But the president’s tariffs on raw data center materials could cause American AI to fall behind.  The rapid growth in the AI industry has brought with it a data center...

Powell states that reciprocal tariffs’ effect will cause high inflation and slow growth, revising previous stance

by Sami Marshak | Apr 7, 2025 | Economy, Featured, International Trade, Newest

President Donald Trump’s higher-than-expected tariffs will raise inflation and reduce economic growth, the chairman of the Federal Reserve warned Friday, in his first public remarks since Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcements.   That assessment from Chair...

Trump’s tariffs on pharma mean that generics and small biotech companies get the short end of the stick

by Sami Marshak | Apr 1, 2025 | Economy, Featured, International Trade, Manufacturing, Newest

Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical tariffs  have upended the plans for Kenneth Moch, president of Euclidean Life Science Advisors, who is now facing roadblocks in further developing his four early-stage life science companies.  Investor skittishness is making it harder to...

Wildland firefighters struggle to find homes to call their own

by Cherry Salazar | Mar 31, 2025 | Economy, Featured, Housing, Jobs, Newest, Personal Income

The housing crisis is putting a strain on wildland firefighters’ families, making it harder for them to remain in service and hinting at a looming crisis for first responders. When Janelle Valentine was nursing her first child, her husband, Patrick, was fighting...