From the April issue: To many New Yorkers, Boston is a punch line, usually delivered during baseball season. But New England’s biggest city — along with Cambridge, its neighbor across the Charles River — is going head-to-head with the Big Apple to woo technology companies, not only fill office space, but also provide a boon to the local economy.

Indeed, all three cities are stepping up efforts to become the No. 2 tech magnet behind California’s Silicon Valley — if not No. 1. [more]

Once the excess housing inventory now on the market has been sold, Yale
economist Robert Shiller says another housing bubble is possible.
Shiller, co-creator of the Case-Shiller Index, which measures housing
prices nationwide, said people are speculative enough about buying real
estate that a bubble could happen. Boston is one housing market where
such a bubble might take place, because the city’s property market has
not fallen as drastically as other cities’ housing markets. [more]