Could curbing share buybacks by homebuilders help solve the country’s affordability crisis? The White House certainly thinks so. Last week, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said The Wall Street Journal that the administration is “studying” how much home builders spend on buybacks of their own stock and said the industry deliberately keeps prices…
In the New York City mayoral race, early voting is in full swing with strong turnout over the weekend. More than 160,000 New Yorkers have already cast their votes and the candidates have not finished campaigning as they wait to present their final arguments with just over a week until Election Day. Zohran Mamdani, the…
More than nine months into his second term, President Donald Trump is struggling to fulfill a key campaign promise: making life more affordable. This is not a criticism from a political opponent but an admission from a fellow Republican, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. “Prices haven’t gone down at all,” Greene said in the The Tim…
