Amy Scott

1 week ago | marketplace.org | David Brancaccio |Amy Scott

The extraction and burning of fossil fuels is helping to accelerate the climate crisis — and investments in your portfolio may be helping fund it. So what’s an investor concerned about the environment to do? Divest? Engage more? Amy Scott, host of the Marketplace podcast “How We Survive,” joined “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio to talk about how some large investors have thought about this issue. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

2 weeks ago | kwbu.org | Amy Scott |Sophia Paliza-Carre

This story originally aired on “Marketplace” on June 12. Gwendolyn Comeaux stood at the end of her driveway in Houston, Texas, wearing a black World Wrestling Entertainment T-shirt and matching shoes — she’s a fan. But on this day she was watching a different kind of spectacle: the gut renovation of her little beige house. “They’re putting up a roof,” she said.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Sophia Paliza-Carre

Gwendolyn Comeaux stood at the end of her driveway in Houston, Texas, wearing a black World Wrestling Entertainment T-shirt and matching shoes — she’s a fan. But on this day she was watching a different kind of spectacle: the gut renovation of her little beige house. “They’re putting up a roof,” she said.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Sophia Paliza-Carre

Doris Brown used to park her car in the garage attached to her small, cream-colored house in northeast Houston, Texas, but these days there’s no room. The place is chock full of emergency supplies, neatly organized and labeled on shelves, from medical supplies and solar batteries, to sleeping bags and boxes of ready-to-eat meals. “And the food is pretty good, because we tested it,” Brown said, laughing. “Especially the dessert back there.”There’s even an inflatable kayak, in case of flooding.

1 month ago | marketplace.org | Amy Scott

Spring is typically a busy time for home sales as the weather warms up and families prepare to move before a new school year. But the season has started out sluggish, as would-be buyers face higher mortgage interest rates and elevated prices. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales of existing homes fell 2% in April compared to a year ago. Meanwhile, the supply of homes for sale rose more than 20%, to the highest level in nearly five years.