One day historians will be ever so grateful that the National Center for Education Statistics initiated a longitudinal survey of college gra...

Rising house prices allow homeowners to invest more in their teenage children. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston examined whethe...

Percentage of Americans who have done the following in the past five years... Used a pawn shop: 8% Gotten an advance on a tax refund: 8% ...

Last week the federal government proposed stricter limits on mortgage lending. For anyone over the age of 50, the new rules sound a lot like...

"New Households Form at Fastest Rate Since '07 in Resurgent U.S.," headlined a recent Bloomberg article . The premise of the a...

The 30-to-34 age group is important for the housing market. This is the age group in which the homeownership rate typically rises above the ...

Any business wondering where the customers went can find out by taking a look at the Federal Reserve Board's new estimates of household ...

Between 2006 (the year household spending peaked) and 2009 (the latest available data), average household spending fell 5 percent, after adj...

In a recent online poll, Time magazine asked its readers who was most to blame for the current economic crisis. Readers rated the guilt of ...

Americans are standing with their mouths agape as the stock market lurches. They lie awake at night worrying about what the future holds for...

Percentage of homeowners who do not have a home equity loan or second mortgage: 82. Source: Census Bureau, 2007 American Community Survey

"Tapped-Out Consumers" was the recent headline in a Business Week article about the unfolding housing crisis. The New York Times c...

Yesterday the National Association of Realtors announced a decline in sales of previously owned homes for the month of July, and today the C...