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People don’t trust blockchain systems—Is regulation a way to help?

The Wharton School’s Kevin Werbach wrote about blockchain and the contradiction between its “allegedly trust-less technology and its trust-needing users.”

The real estate outlook for 2019: Waiting for millennials?

Wharton’s Susan Wachter and Benjamin Keys discuss the 2019 outlook for the U.S. real estate market.

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How the appliance boom moved more women into the workforce

A new book from economist Jeremy Greenwood looks at the effects of technological progress on home life.

Expert voices 2019: Why cities?

Housing the majority of the global population, cities have come to define and shape the overarching challenges of the 21st century. The speed and scale of their development is unprecedented, raising complex questions about how to address the changes they bring to communities around the world.

It’s time for the Federal Reserve’s annual game of musical chairs

The Wharton School’s Peter Conti-Brown provided a history of the Federal Open Market Committee’s yearly meetings.

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Latin America in 2019: Will political upheaval stall growth?

William Burke-White discusses the economic impact of new leaders in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico; upcoming elections in Argentina; and Venezuela’s upheaval in the face of Nicolas Maduro’s re-election.

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The ACA in 2019: Will it face a reckoning?

Wharton’s Mark Pauly, Eric Clemons and Robert Field discuss what lies ahead for the Affordable Care Act in 2019.

Existing home sales plummeted in December. Here’s why

The Wharton School’s Susan Wachter discussed the decrease in existing home sales in the U.S. “It absolutely is a reaction to the higher interest rates and mortgage rates in 2019 … But there’s another force which is persistent, and that is that housing simply has become unaffordable across the board, and that’s likely to continue into 2019, so it is a concern.”

Report predicts aging homeless population will nearly triple by 2030

The national population of people 65 or older experiencing homelessness is estimated to grow from 40,000 to 106,000 by 2030.

What changes will the EU see in 2019?

Wharton finance professor Joao Gomes discusses Brexit, trade issues between the union and its partners, the migration crisis, the growth of populism across the region, and a shaky relationship with the Trump administration.

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