Market Value: Angry Over Zillow’s Home Prices? A Prize Is Offered for Improving Them

Market Value By NICK WINGFIELD May 24, 2017 SEATTLE — It’s one of the oldest tricks in an internet company’s playbook. Concoct a tool that gives the public new statistics on something — the quality of a restaurant or a toaster, say....

Economic Trends: The Low-Inflation World May Be Sticking Around Longer Than Expected

It will take more than a U.S. presidential election, a few months of solid global growth and a recovery in oil prices to fix it.

Justices Side With Free-Speech Challenge to Credit Card Fees

By ADAM LIPTAK March 29, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the First Amendment applies to a New York law concerning credit card fees. The decision was a victory for five businesses that had sought to tell their customers that...

Simplifying Shelter: Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing

Simplifying Shelter By CONOR DOUGHERTY February 10, 2017 Suppose there were a way to pump up the economy, reduce inequality and put an end to destructive housing bubbles like the one that contributed to the Great Recession. The idea would be simple, but not...