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Don't Pity the Rentennials: Why Not Owning a Home Is a Good Thing

Millennials are a generation of renters, but this is nothing to be depressed about.

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Business Breakdown: Why Are Wall Street Banks Coughing Up $26 Billion? Why Are Wall Street Banks Coughing Up $26 Billion?

Yesterday, the government got Wall Street banks to pay $26 billion in penalties for screwing people over. Is it enough?

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Sustainable Development Makes Housing Affordable

Rent isn’t the only variable that determines how affordable a particular home is. Access to transit and amenities like groceries matters, too.

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A Lesson from Greece: Time for an American Bail-In

If it’s good enough for the Greeks, it’s good enough for us.

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Remember That Foreclosure Crisis? It's Still Going On

Rampant foreclosure was the big story of 2009, but now that banks are going through their backlog, it's not about to get better.

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The Rules Of: Finding a Roommate

Eight steps to selecting a person to share a wall with.

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Interactive Map Compares "Affordable" Housing in NYC Neighborhoods

Envisioning Development pairs design with data to give New York City's tenants a lesson in affordable housing.

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Homeschool: How to Get Your Finances in Order

You can't control those reckless banks and free-borrowing governments, but you can get your own budget in order. Here's how.

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Generation Rent: How Our American Dream Is Different from Our Parents'

Owning a home may be a pipe dream for millennials. Here's how members of Generation Rent differ from their parents.

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Davos Gets Underway with Requisite Soul-Searching by Globe's Movers and Shakers

Fixing the world's problems is on the agenda at this week's World Economic Forum in Davos. That and high-altitude hobnobbing.

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Los Angeles Unified Turns Watts High School Over to Charter Organizations

Jordan High School is set to be split into three campuses, and the school's 200 teachers will have to reapply for their jobs.

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Beijing Architect Lives in Egg on the Street

Dai Haifei decided to abandon the entire Chinese housing system and live in this self-constructed ovoid on the sidewalk.

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Jay Baldwin, Student of Buckminster Fuller, Designs Efficient Truck Bed Camper Jay Baldwin, Student of Buckminster Fuller, Designs Efficient Truck Bed Camper

We asked the inventor-illustrator Steven M. Johnson to find examples of products and ideas that move the world forward in creative ways.

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Four-star Living at Burning Man: The Dome

Why didn't Buckminster Fuller's dome-a brilliant innovation of design-ever take off?

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How the Average American Spends Its Money

This colorful chart breaks down the spending of America's "average consumer unit," a 2.5-person household making a combined $62,000.