As the heated talk over tariffs dominated the financial news, you might have missed a notable fact: housing affordability has dropped to its lowest level in nearly a decade. That’s a shame, considering that the economy is picking up steam and incomes are finally creeping higher.
Read MoreU.S.-China trade tensions escalated, after the Trump Administration said that it would implement the previously announced 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of Chinese goods “that contain industrially significant technologies” – i.e., those that were highlighted in President Xi’s “Made in China 2025” project, which explicitly focuses on boosting China’s capabilities in sectors where the U.S. is currently a leader.
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