Month: October 2020

The Friday File: Winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes, which will be announced next week, will be getting 10% more prize money. Each of the six prizes will come with 10 million Swedish Krona (SEK), $1.1 million. Initially, the prizes…

New housing, and thus existing housing, has become increasingly more expensive because of burdensome land use regulations, increasingly costly building codes, a labor shortage, and higher input costs. Another rarely mentioned reason is industry consolidation. The share of homes built…