Key takeaways: The median purchase rate was 6.0% in week 2, 2026. According to Mortgage News Daily, the avg. 30-year rate was 6.01% on January 12th. Purchase rate lock volume remains muted, down 20% ...
There is an old Wall Street joke about a man jumping off the Empire State building. When asked at the fortieth floor how he was doing, he replied: “So far, so good”. We have ...
AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. Daniel A. D’Aniello, ChairmanCofounder and Chairman EmeritusThe Carlyle Group Clifford S. AsnessManaging ...
In The Real Retirement Crisis: Why (Almost) Everything You Know About the US Retirement System Is Wrong, Andrew G. Biggs brings economic insights and hard data to bear on America’s retirement savings ...
Investors owning more than 100 properties account for a mere one percent of the US single-family housing stock, according to a recent and penetrating analysis by my AEI colleagues. Even at their peak, ...
Everyone is talking about the decision by the board of the Kennedy Center to rename the institution the Trump Kennedy Center. It would appear that the move was illegal: Most commentators agree that an ...
Event Summary On March 24, AEI’s Scott Winship was joined by fellow AEI colleague James C. Capretta, Brian Blase of the Paragon Health Institute, Jessica Riedl of the Manhattan Institute, and Avik Roy ...
There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of ...
Qayis al-Khazali rose to prominence amongst Iraqi Shia during his religious training in the Hawza (the theological seminaries) of Najaf. He was a devoted student of Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the father ...
President Trump has expressed understandable concern with the state of the single-family housing market that he inherited a year ago. During the Biden administration, home prices went up by 34% while ...
Like almost everything else in Havana, the old Tropicana hotel and casino seems frozen in time. When I visited Cuba two years ago, the hotel was undergoing renovations, but its façade and interior ...
As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock ...