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US Apartment Rents Post Largest Annual Decline Since 2017 In March: Report

Meanwhile, the vacancy rate hit 7.3 percent, the highest since 2017, according to Apartment List.

New Warning Sign: 1 In 4 Workers Have Cut 401k Contribution Rate

...while more raid their accounts via loans and hardship withdrawals

"Resilient" US Manufacturing Sector Surges In Face Of War, Prices Paid Up

“Faster growth of output in March points to encouraging resilience for US manufacturing in the face of the outbreak of war in the Middle East,"

Blue States Are Still Facing A Mass Taxpayer Exodus Long After COVID

The historic population shift that escalated during the pandemic era is still well underway, though the causes are now more economic than political...

Dallas Fed Mfg Activity Holds Near One Year High Despite Plunge In Respondent Sentiment On Iran War

"We have been stupid slow recently, slower than we can recall in many years. We continue to believe it’s from the chaos and confusion coming out of Washington"

Black Women Bear Brunt Of Mass Layoffs With The Rise Of AI And The End Of DEI

Black women saw the sharpest increase in unemployment in the US over the past year, suggesting the DEI gravy train is over...

"There's A Lot Of Concern": GOP Lawmakers Predict Midterm Disaster If Troops Deployed To Iran

“If there are boots on the ground, public sentiment on this war changes overnight in a flash… people are not going to go for it.”

The German Bureaucratic Dream Of "Society with Bound Capital"

German corporate law could soon be enriched by a new legal entity. With the establishment of the Society with Bound Capital (GmgV), ownership capital is being eliminated—what socialists perceive as the unappetizing legacy of the vanished bourgeoisie.

US Postal Service Plans 8% Fuel Surcharge As Iran War Raises Transport Costs

First-time fuel fee would match common practice at FedEx, UPS...

Germany's Economy At The Point Of No Return

If anyone still needed a concrete figure to illustrate the dramatic state of the German economy, the Federal Statistical Office has now delivered it. The country’s investment ratio is negative, as depreciation exceeds nominal investments. Slowly but surely, the lights are going out.