It started as one woman's protest against high rent in her neighborhood. Now, tens of thousands of people are protesting the high cost of living in Israel.
// Video edited by Elizabeth Shell. As a follow-up to Tuesday's story on abandoned housing demolition in Cleveland, we're posting a short video: A show-and-tell about one vacant property, it covers all the bases - from the…
Business correspondent Paul Solman reports from Cleveland on the economically troubled Ohio city's efforts to tear down thousands of empty foreclosed homes in hopes of putting eyesore and dangerous properties back to productive use -- perhaps as community gardens, new…
This month's Case-Shiller Home Price Index is out and, rather than paraphrase or plagiarize Phil Izzo's succinct account for The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog, how about we reproduce it? S&P/Case-Shiller home-price…
This month's Case-Shiller index is out and, rather than paraphrase or plagiarize Phil Izzo's succinct account on the Wall Street Journal blog, Real Time Economics, how about we reproduce it? "S&P/Case-Shiller home-price data showed…
Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news. Paul addresses three queries on housing in Monday's post.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $153 million to settle charges of misleading investors in the housing market. Judy Woodruff discusses the settlement and back story with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jesse Eisinger of…
The economy may be showing sings of new life but new data show a weak housing market. Ray Suarez talks to Yale University's Ron Shiller about the state of the U.S. housing picture.
As you've probably heard by now either on our program or elsewhere, the administration's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP for short) has been a disappointment -- to put it generously. The program, announced back in February 2009, aimed to…
Two years after it was launched with far more ambitious goals, the Obama administration's main program to prevent foreclosures came under fire in Congress Wednesday while the Treasury Department received a final barrage of criticism from the departing inspector…
