We'll never again see the sort of guaranteed high returns on real estate that defined the last 50 years, say experts. Time to retire the phrase "safe as houses"?
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Small investors have sold off more than $30 billion in stocks as bad economic news piles up. Has the middle class given up on the market?
Americans are downsizing. Does that mean the end of huge houses on tiny lots?
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The apperance of the dreaded Hindenburg Omen — an obscure technical indicator of a market plunge — has some analysts terrified. Should the rest of us be?
Will fixing the mortgage market mean that fewer Americans can own their homes? Would that even be a bad thing?
Watch a Fox Business discussion about how the current housing market has derailed Americans' plans to own a house someday
Go hit the stores during your annual back-to-school tax holiday, says Steve Chapman in Reason. Just don't expect to save any money
The Obama team is rumored to be working up an $800 billion mortgage-reduction scheme through Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
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AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile want you to pay for your shopping trips using your smartphone. Will you?
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Builders are getting gloomier as home sales drop. Will the housing market get worse before it gets better?
Watch a Fox Business report about how the lack of credit available for homebuyers and builders is affecting the housing industry
One prominent market forecaster says the U.S. is on the precipice of the worst market crash in its history — ending in a three-digit Dow. Time to sell?
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It's the "mother of all bailouts" — the two government-owned mortgage providers have already cost taxpayers $146 billion. Analysts say that figure could grow to $1 trillion
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Prisoners have received millions of dollars in federal funds through the first-time home buyer tax credit program. How is this possible?
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They're unknown and invisible to most of us, but electronic trading programs now rule the stock markets
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Should the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill be sold in vending machines?
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