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Economics & Business Apr 7, 2025

US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes

"You cannot annex another country." This was the clear message given by the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, at a recent press conference with the outgoing and incoming prime ministers of Greenland. It did not appear ...

Economics & Business Apr 1, 2025

Antitrust settlement could lower cost of buying a home

Since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) agreed in March to pay $418 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit, researchers at Texas McCombs see the potential to curb artificially high real estate commissions.

Economics & Business Mar 27, 2025

Why is housing so expensive? Blame the Great Recession and its resulting construction labor shortage

The Great Recession occurred 17 years ago, from December 2007 to June 2009. Led by a crash in the housing sector, it was the deepest recession since World War II and resulted in noteworthy financial industry failures, serious ...

Economics & Business Mar 26, 2025

Machine learning algorithm that predicts properties' values benefits housing market, says study

Housing tends to be a key part of household wealth, but despite its importance, it has been difficult to measure the value of a property. In a new article, researchers have studied the impact of a popular machine-learning ...

Economics & Business Mar 24, 2025

Wealthy Africans often don't pay tax. The answer lies in smarter collection, says expert

Faced with some of the worse debt levels in over a decade, African countries are struggling to find ways to balance their books. Increasing revenue sources from their citizens is an obvious place to look.

Earth Sciences Mar 19, 2025

These California coastal cities face heightened flood danger from a tsunami, data show

The risk of damaging flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along stretches of California's renowned coastline, state officials say, further reinforcing the need for residents to take note if they ...

Social Sciences Mar 17, 2025

Factors behind urban nightlife venue instability and preservation revealed

Nowadays, it is widely believed that nightlife is at risk: the German concept of "Clubsterben" (the death of clubs) began circulating among nightlife and live music activists in the early 2010s. In the United Kingdom, too, ...

Environment Mar 13, 2025

Unoccupied housing in China's urban areas emitting massive amounts of carbon, study finds

A group of construction managers and real estate specialists at Tsinghua University, in China, has found that the unusually high number of unoccupied residential units in China's cities is responsible for releasing massive ...

Social Sciences Mar 10, 2025

America is becoming a nation of homebodies

In his February 2025 cover story for The Atlantic, journalist Derek Thompson dubbed our current era "the anti-social century."

Economics & Business Mar 4, 2025

Study warns extreme flood predictions can sink coastal property prices

A new study reveals that more extreme flood predictions significantly impact real estate demand in the U.K., particularly along the coast.

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