It probably won't have escaped your attention that the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates last week.

The federal funds rate was raised by a quarter percentage point to 2% - the seventh rate increase since December 2015. The Federal Reserve also indicated that there are likely to be another …

According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, more households are rented than at any time for over 50 years.

The report says that, even though US households expanded by 7.6 million in the decade to 2016, the number of homeowners remained rather static.

The number of …