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Senior housing providers and investors continue to take advantage of today’s low interest rates by acquiring additional communities, and the pace of acquisitions might accelerate further because [...]

Yesterday we discussed how June’s positive jobs report has many economists thinking that the Federal Reserve will raise its benchmark federal funds rate sooner than they previously anticipated. [...]

With the Federal Reserve on pace to eliminate its quantitative easing program by the end of the year, economists are increasingly turning their attention to the federal funds rate and debating [...]

Yesterday we discussed how the first-quarter’s revised GDP figures caught economists by surprise, but didn’t lead to panic because of recent data which shows that the economy has picked up steam [...]

The Commerce Department recently revised its assessment of first quarter economic growth from a scant .1%, to an even worse annualized decline of 2.9%, meaning the economy shrank by almost 3% [...]

Now that the Federal Reserve has started winding down the stimulus measures it implemented to help the economy after the recession, senior housing providers are increasingly paying attention to [...]

Earlier this week, Janet Yellen, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, gave an important speech at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., which offered listeners some insight into her [...]

Thanks to the improving economy and stimulus measures taken by the Federal Reserve, commercial real estate lending has increased steadily since the end of the recession. For example, as-of March [...]

After its June meeting, the Federal Reserve announced that it would continue tapering its quantitative easing program (QE3) by another $10 billion in July. The Fed instituted this program years [...]

We recently chronicled how the aging of the population continues to play a key role in driving demand for senior housing services and how the attractiveness of senior housing assets continues to [...]