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Spacious affordable homes in less populated metropolitan areas are hot, while small expensive apartments in densely populated areas are not. Warmer weather also appeals to homebuyers. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted homebuyers’ preferences in a major way, making these three cities the hottest cities in the U.S. last year. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif.; Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla.; and Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC were the the top metros for the most inbound… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes his seat to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The writer is former Chair of the FDIC and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Financial Institutions. More and more informed observers are asking why, after 13+ years of the Federal Reserve’s increasingly… Source link

Vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. has proven to be a stubborn issue that is holding back America’s ability to defend itself against the particularly infectious Delta variant in certain parts of the country. In addition to unvaccinated adults themselves, two demographics are particularly vulnerable as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises. “Children under 12 don’t have a vaccine yet,” Dr. Heather Yeo, associate professor of surgery and health care policy and research at Weill Cornell… Source link

Players are now speedrunning Google Doodle’s latest game, Doodle Champion Island Games. The browser game – released to celebrate the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – has been completed in just 11 seconds (that’s In-Game Time as opposed to Real-Time Attack) not once, but three times, with speedrunners ExaminationMassive95, stratpat1964, and dishadow99 all jointly holding the record (thanks r/speedrun, via TheGamer). You can check out a full 11-second… Source link

Google Maps is rolling out more accurate indicators of transit crowdedness. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo The world is slowly opening back up. You might be finding yourself using public transit for the first time in ages and trying to figure out how to get around. Some helpful new Google Maps features could help us all navigate through this time, both literally and figuratively. For folks finding themselves back on a bus or a train, Google is expanding its transit crowdedness predictions. The… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Someday, the post-pandemic equities rally is going to end. When it does it will take a lot of newly christened stock bulls with it. Their refusal to bend has been the signature fact of the stock market for at least 12 months, putting a floor under four other selloffs in 2021 alone that look just like the one that has sheared almost 3% off the S&P 500 Index since Thursday. Whether the devotion of retail investors is enough to turn the tide again is the biggest question in… Source link

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos will launch Tuesday from a remote area of west Texas on his Blue Origin rocket, becoming the second billionaire this month to leave the Earth, albeit briefly. Bezos’ July 20 flight on the New Shepard spacecraft will come less than two… Source link

Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday filed three purported federal class action lawsuits against Facebook (FB), Google-owned YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL) and Twitter (TWTR) their respective CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey.  According to Trump, the lawsuits are intended to stop the platforms from censoring speech and from removing user accounts. The three suits claim the tech giants violated the First Amendment’s free speech protections, though the amendment protects… Source link

The stock market’s all-time highs are doing wonders for workers’ 401(k)s, with the largest number of 401(k) and IRA millionaires in history, according to Fidelity data. As a result, many people are dropping out of the workforce to retire earlier than planned, turning their backs on a job seeker’s market. The Federal Reserve is letting the economy run especially hot in an attempt to bring back people into the workforce, Oxford Economics’ senior economist Bob Schwartz wrote in a note to… Source link

Kevin Durant dunks on Brook Lopez The Nets came up short of a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals and, ultimately, an NBA title June 19 — a 115-111 overtime loss in Game 7 at Barclays Center against the Milwaukee Bucks — but Kevin Durant does see some positives. While Durant made clear his discontent with not winning, he expressed optimism about what Brooklyn has built in an appearance this past week on Episode 47 of the Boardroom: Out of Office podcast. “All of that s–t really don’t… Source link