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The 'fastest Fed-driven housing slowdown on record' has slowed the U.S. housing market with elevated prices and higher monthly mortgage payments.

Will the housing market crash? Goldman Sachs compares the 2006 housing bubble pop preceding the Great Recession’s to real estate conditions today. Here’s what’s different — and why affordability is the key area concern.

The new downtown shelter takes over Inn from the Cold's former facility, offering beds off the floor and more privacy for those with nowhere else to call home. 

The new downtown shelter takes over Inn from the Cold’s former facility, offering beds off the floor and more privacy for those with nowhere else to call home. 

Small houses, big plans

Consumer concerns over the rising price of seafood needs to be addressed by the industry before sustainability as a purchase driver play a bigger role.

Merith Basey, executive director of Patients For Affordable Drugs, believes the Medicare price negotiation program is here to stay, no matter who is president and no matter how many Big Pharma players file lawsuits. Her reasoning? Every other high income nation has been negotiating prices with drugmakers for years, and the program is widely popular in the U.S. among pretty much everyone who isn’t a pharma company, she said during a session at Engage at HLTH.

Joan Low of the digital mental wellness platform Thoughtfull shares insights on how to support ourselves and others in a poor mental state.

The dupe beauty trend is playing out throughout the beauty industry, and according to the latest survey results from market intelligence player Mintel, it is having a favorable impact on more affordable makeup brands.

Justin Trudeau has reached the point in his tenure when a large number of Canadians are willing to blame him for the things he has done wrong in the past eight years