California Home Sales Up 5% SA YoY in September
at Calculated Risk on 10/22/2024 08:39:00 AM Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: California Home Sales Up 5% SA YoY in September Excerpt: The National Association of Realtors (NAR)…
Calculated Risk: Tuesday: Richmond Fed Mfg
at Calculated Risk on 10/21/2024 07:53:00 PM From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Rates Jump Quickly to Highest Levels Since July By the smallest of margins, mortgage rates are…
Nick Lardy on China’s Rise and Economic Conflict with the US
This Thursday 4:30 CT at UW: China GDP growth through Q3: BOFIT reviews the recent stimulus measures: My impression is that the failure of the CCP to roll out greater…
Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.34% in September
at Calculated Risk on 10/21/2024 04:51:00 PM From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.34% in September The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey…
CatholicVote: “Two economists reported that after adjusting government statistics to more accurately measure inflation, it became clear that the country has been in a recession for the past two years under the Biden-Harris administration”
That’s the title of this article. Heritage Foundation Research Fellow EJ Antoni and Mises Institute Fellow Peter St Onge compiled the report for the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic…
The Election and the Economy
at Calculated Risk on 10/21/2024 01:59:00 PM After the election in November 2016, I wrote The Future is still Bright! and The Cupboard is Full. I pointed out that there…
“Apartment Market Conditions Continue to Loosen”
at Calculated Risk on 10/21/2024 11:00:00 AM Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NMHC on Apartments: “Looser market conditions for the ninth consecutive quarter” Excerpt: From the NMHC: Although…
Inventory Up 1.0% Week-over-week, Up 33.4% Year-over-year
at Calculated Risk on 10/21/2024 08:11:00 AM Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.0% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 49.7% from the February seasonal bottom. The first graph…
Has GDP Growth Been Faster under Biden vs. than under Trump? Answer: Yes
I keep on hearing people like House Speaker Mike Johnson saying how growth under Trump was the fastest. Well, just comparing against the last three and a half years, I…
The Gutting of the US Dollar, According to Vladimir Putin
From EJ Antoni and Peter St. Onge channel Vladimir Putin (Feb 2024): America’s political establishment has less respect for the US dollar than our foreign adversaries. That was made clear…