“Yeah, you can buy dirt... And thank the good Lord for it... ‘Cause he ain’t makin’ any more of it.” The lyrics above are from the 2021 hit country song “Buy Dirt,” which voices a mantra that lives ...

For about a decade, businesses operated in a near-zero interest rate environment, making capital cheap and encouraging debt-fueled growth. This era normalized high-leverage models where the cost of ...

Despite a jump in sales of new houses, Bakersfield home prices slid in July as elevated mortgage interest rates and economic uncertainty continued to weigh on the market locally and around the state.