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Economics Desk
Indicators translated back into rent, wages, spending, and shelter.
Economics • Report
Mortgage rates are lower than their worst recent highs but still high enough to ration buying. Rents are cooling more slowly than households feel, and the nation’s housing squeeze remains the most intimate version of…
Economics • Analysis
The American economy is still growing, but it is doing so with less exuberance, less labor-market churn, and more dependence on household spending than the public rhetoric admits.