The first meeting of the Federal Reserve’s policy making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) under the chairmanship of Kevin Warsh concluded with keeping rates unchanged in a 12-0 vote. As a result, the target range for the federal funds rate remains at 3.5% to...
Bill Pulte gets a new job, a social media-savvy realtor helps a Texas mayor, and a new video on the data center sector racks up hits on YouTube. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of June 1-5. Miss: An Intelligence...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: On Sunday evening, Jerome Powell was presented with the 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. According to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, which presented the award to the former Fed chairman and current Fed governor, Powell was...
Jerome Powell used his first public appearance since the conclusion of his term as Federal Reserve chairman to take a barely veiled swipe at the Trump administration for what he perceived as a threat to the central bank’s independence. In a Sunday night speech during...
A broke city gets a new tax, a pesky deed thief is back in custody, and Tampa Bay gets another $1 billion request for a stadium. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of May 25-29. Miss: Ignoring the Root of the...
Mortgage Rates Reach 7.40%, Highest Since November 2023
