Latest from Ryan Kailath

• May 24, 2017

  CBO score tallies how many will be covered by revised GOP health plan

  The Congressional Budget Office will release its assessment, or “score,” of the House GOP’s revised health plan this afternoon. When the first draft was released back in March, the CBO estimated 24 million people would lose health insurance under that plan. Among the questions are, will this revised plan cover more people than the last […]

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• May 23, 2017

  Penn Station is a drag for commuters and the economy

  

  Delays at the train depot ripple through the economy of the entire East Coast, an expert says.

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• May 18, 2017

  Americans are borrowing more, creating record debt

  The New York Federal Reserve says Americans are borrowing again — everything from student loans to auto loans to mortgages. According to the New York Fed, household debt has reached a record high, even higher than the previous peak, during the credit bubble in 2008. The report’s findings don’t mean Americans have learned to be […]

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• May 15, 2017

  Fewer couples have joint bank accounts. Why?

  About 22 million Americans who are either married or living together keep separate bank accounts. That’s according to a recent survey by the personal finance site Bankrate.com. It also found that younger couples are more likely to keep their money separate. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.

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• May 12, 2017

  Yale to help policymakers deal with the financial crisis in real time

  Ever since the world economy broke in 2008, policymakers have looked for ways to keep it from breaking again. But there’s another important lesson to learn: how to put it back together. Yale University is creating a tool to offer real-time guidance to central bankers and others while they deal with a financial crisis.  Click […]

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• May 11, 2017

  If Snap wants better earnings, Wall Street watchers say it needs more users

  Snapchat’s first quarter earnings fell short of expectations on many fronts, and that has investors wondering if Instagram and its owner, Facebook, are beating Snap at its own game. Instagram and Facebook have copied many popular features of Snapchat and its “stories” platform, and they have the bigger user base in place that Snap wants […]

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• May 4, 2017

  On Fifth Avenue, vacancy rates spike along with rents

  

  Stores on the world's most expensive retail strip are fleeing high rents.

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• May 4, 2017

  This new real estate site is aimed at first-time buyers

  The real estate site Zillow has launched a new tool aimed at first-time home buyers on realestate.com. It features a calculator that adds up the expenses of owning a home, like property taxes and utilities — the kind of things that new buyers don’t always expect or budget for. It’s designed to help ease the […]

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• May 2, 2017

  Property insurers report the worst first-quarter profits in more than 20 years

  When you buy insurance for your car or your house, you and your insurance company hope you’ll never have to use it. Well, not so much in 2017. Property insurers are reporting the worst first-quarter profits in more than 20 years.  You can blame hailstorms, ice storms, tornadoes—the kind of severe weather that contributes to […]

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