Investments
We're Not Investing Enough in Renewable Energy
While investment in renewable energy is up in developing countries, it's actually down in developed economies, according to a U.N. report.
Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal Looks a Lot Like the Whitewater Investigation of 20 Years Ago
Hillary Clinton’s defense of her use of personal emails while she was secretary of state triggers memories of the "pink press conference."
Not Everything Should Be Crowdfunded
The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.
The Geopolitics of Gentrification
The international market for U.S. real estate looks nothing like the domestic market for U.S. real estate.
Investing in Human Capital, Literally
In what’s been criticized as a modern-day version of indentured servitude, a new batch of start-ups are giving investors the opportunity to turn people into profit by buying a piece of their future earnings. Could this be a solution to our student debt problem?
Do We Need to Force People to Live in the Homes They Own?
With more and more individual investors looking to real estate as just another money-making commodity to add to their portfolio, rents are being driven to unreachable heights for all but the wealthiest among us.