And at the forefront is real estate. “The grinding fall in home prices is weighing on shelter costs—the broad “owned ...

Apparently unfazed over blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Cody was into her knee. Big sniffs. “He must smell my pooch,” the unknown woman on the sidewalk offered. But they all say that. Dogs tend to ...

Conventional financial-planning wisdom says that you should always have the equivalent of three-to-six months’ salary tucked away somewhere safe to handle emergencies. I’ve heard this mantra since I ...

Finally! Some encouraging news on the inflation front. After the sharpest surge in prices since the early 1980s, inflation ...

Sellers are shunning a race to that bottom. And now we have a scary war in the Middle East that could screw up any recovery ...

This is because of oil, which has jumped (but not spiked) in price. Since the White House has no clue when this conflict will ...

Susan’s been trying to sell a downtown townhouse (”It’s so cute”) since October. Two price cuts so far. Her realtor wants more. “I got a call from her yesterday,” Sue told me, “so a couple who looked ...

There’s more to fret about, too. Retail sales suck. Manufacturing activity has taken a downturn. Now the crazy Trump war has ignited the Middle East, swollen energy costs, further disrupted global ...

Big Daddy was in Tokyo to cut a new strategic Canada-Japan deal yesterday. Before that he was taking selfies on the tarmac in ...