On Our Radar

Real estate prices around the world are flashing the kind of bubble warnings that haven’t been seen since the run up to the 2008 financial crisis, according to Bloomberg Economics.

Ms. Scott made a new round of grants, to 286 organizations. Her net worth, which Forbes estimates at $60 billion, keeps rising, thanks to Amazon stock.

In our new paper, “Long Shadows: The Black-White Gap in Multigenerational Poverty,” we take a multigenerational perspective on economic inequality by race, showing the persistence of unequal economic opportunity for Black Americans across time.

Under the Trump administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency at times butted heads with other regulators over issues like reforming the Community Reinvestment Act and offering bank charter access to fintech firms. But new leadership could strengthen the OCC’s focus on coordinating with other agencies, observers say.

America’s municipalities have always been test labs for innovation. As the pandemic begins to ebb in the U.S., we look at a handful of programs that proponents hope will spread across the country.

There is no way to be a billionaire in America without taking advantage of a system predicated on cruelty.

Why do we leave millions of people in poverty? The answer should make us uncomfortable.

Fewer people are riding metro than before the pandemic, even as many restrictions are being lifted, but Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) wants to change that.

On Wednesday morning, the Senate Banking Committee Economic Policy Subcommittee under Senators Warren and Kennedy will hold a hearing on the challenges and opportunities of a Digital Dollar.

New York City transplants are bringing a housing boom — and growing inequality — deep into the Hudson Valley.

Biden’s housing department is restoring the requirement that communities take steps to reduce racial segregation or risk losing federal funds. But missing from the requirement is the 2015 mandate that communities undergo an extensive analysis of local barriers to integration and submit plans to dismantle them to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The federal government often gives less help to Black disaster survivors than their white neighbors. That’s a challenge for President Biden, who has vowed to fight both inequality and climate change.

Provides links to all monthly CRA evaluations for this year.

Over the last year, multiple stimulus Measures from the federal government have helped families buy groceries, pay rent and build a financial cushion.

No one should be under the impression that the burning of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa a century ago was a one-off atrocity.