Moves over: American house prices
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The highest interest rates in years should lead to a fall in house prices. But peculiarities of America’s mortgage market are driving them up. Egg-freezing was supposed to give women more control over childbearing; we look at scant data showing how successful it really is (10:57). And remembering Isabel Crook, an anthropologist who embraced China’s communist transformation, warts and all (15:44).
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| 1:18.9 | Egg freezing is supposed to give women the opportunity to delay having children. |
| 1:23.7 | Their fertility is, well, frozen in time. |
| 1:26.8 | But as yet, there's not much data on how successful it is. |
| 1:30.2 | We pick through some of the best numbers that are available. |
| 1:34.3 | And our obituries editor remembers Isabel Crook, |
| 1:38.7 | the Canadian anthropologist who saw the founding of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1:42.9 | and became an ardent supporter of its cause despite its horrors. |
| 1:47.0 | But first, |
| 1:57.0 | Home-owned, Home ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, |
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