Economy

Homeownership was crawling slowly back from its record low two years ago, but it just stalled, and the youngest homebuyers are behind that. Millennials had been driving the nation’s overall homeownership rate, showing the biggest […]

Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A shopper looks at washers and dryers in Glenview, Illinois. Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose 2.6 percent in March, but a key category that tracks business investment […]

The toll taken by the national opioid crisis has been devastating, but there’s at least one glimmer of hope emerging that could have positive economic effects. Prescriptions for opioids dropped 12 percent in 2017, believed […]