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Federal debt held by the public now stands at 95% of gross domestic product, up from 80% at the start of 2020, and federal deficits are now 6% of GDP and projected to keep rising, from under 5% before the pandemic.

Landlords with 1,000 properties or more accounted for 0.4% of U.S. home purchases during the second quarter, down from a peak of 2.4% in late 2021.

New York hotels charged $260 a night on average in August, roughly 17% more than the same month in 2019. That was New York’s highest rate for the month of August since 2008.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield said last year that it planned to shed most of its American portfolio by the end of 2023. Now, the Paris-based company intends to hold some of its top-performing malls beyond that self-imposed deadline.

Blackstone recently disclosed that its Tactical Opportunities business closed the fourth flagship commingled fund, Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund IV (BTO IV), raising a record capital commitment of $5.2 billion.

Caesars Entertainment paid roughly half of a $30 million ransom that hackers demanded after a cyberattack late this summer, another example of a major casino operator suffering from an attack as MGM Resorts grapples with the fallout of a recent incident.

Americans’ inflation-adjusted median household income fell to $74,580 in 2022, declining 2.3% from the 2021 estimate of $76,330. The amount has dropped 4.7% since its peak in 2019.

Overall options activity has smashed records in each of the past three years. About 44 million options contracts have changed hands each day so far this year, on average, an 8% bump from last year and more than double the figure in 2018.

Since 2019, rental prices have increased more in Miami than in nearly any other major metro area, soaring 56.5%.

Investors put $33 billion toward U.S.-based venture capital funds in the first half of 2023, less than half the $74 billion in the same period in 2021. Global fundraising for all private funds fell 10% last year to $1.5 trillion.