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2025
Existing Home Sales Print At 4.06 Million Units In September, Commercial Real Estate Still Lower Than Before Covid 19 Outbreak In 2020original ↗
23 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025
Federal Gov’t Having A Party! Fed Printed 43.2% More Money Since Covid (While The Federal Government Borrowed 56% More Money)original ↗
16 Oct 2025
Can We EVER Return To Pre-Covid Spending Levels? Both US Debt And Spending UP 56% Since Covid Outbreak In 2020original ↗
13 Oct 2025
Mortgage Demand Decreased 4.7 Percent From One Week Earlier (Purchase Index Decreased 1 Percent)original ↗
8 Oct 2025
Shutdown! Mortgage Demand Falls 12.7% From Previous Week (Purchase Index Fell 2%, Refi Index Fell 21% As Mortgage Rates Rose)original ↗
1 Oct 2025
Downshift! US Home Prices Fall By 0.7% In September, 5th Straight Month Of Declines (Tampa Leads The Decline Followed By San Francisco)original ↗
30 Sept 2025
Pending Home Sales In August Surge 4% YoY (Lower Rates Helping, Rates Peaked At 18.63% In 1981)original ↗
29 Sept 2025
Mortgage Defaults (CDR) Surging After Rate Reset (Did Jay Powell And The Blackhearts Wait Too Long To Cut Rates??)original ↗
23 Sept 2025
23 Sept 2025
Funky Cold Jerome! US Treasury 10Y-2Y Yield Curve Rises/Steepens, Particularly At The 10-year Tenor (As Of Yesterday, The 30-year Mortgage Rate FELL To 6.17%)original ↗
19 Sept 2025
Fed Post-mortem: 10Y Treasury Yield Rises To 4.13%, 30Y Mortgage Rate Falls To 6.5%, US Dollar Fallsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
Zowie! Mortgage Applications Increased 29.7% From One Week Earlier (Purchase Index Up 12% And 20% From Last Year)original ↗
17 Sept 2025
17 Sept 2025
US Treasury Yield Curve Points To Zero Relief For Mortgage Market Even If The Fed Cuts Their Target Rate Tomorroworiginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
House Of The Dying Dollar? US Purchasing Power Of Dollar Fell -18% Under Biden/Powell, But Has Only Fallen -2.5% Under Trump II (Dollar Down -97% Since Fed Estabishment In 1913)original ↗
15 Sept 2025
US Housing Is Simply Unaffordable! 30y Mortgage Rate UP 125.8% Since Biden Took Control In 2021 (Mortgage Originations Then Fell By 74% While Home Prices Rose )original ↗
14 Sept 2025
11 Sept 2025
BIGGEST Negative Payroll Revision On Record! March 2025 Revised Downward By 911k Jobs (Worse Than Last Biden Revision Of Over 600k Jobs)original ↗
9 Sept 2025
50 Basis Point Cut Coming? US Economy Adds Only 22k Jobs In August, Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.3% (Guns Of August Misfires)original ↗
5 Sept 2025
US Q3 GDP Forecast Falls To 3% From 3.5% On Decline In Equipment Investment (CMBS Office Delinquency Hits All-time High!)original ↗
3 Sept 2025
Mortgage Applications Decline 1.2 Percent From Previous Week (Purchase Index Decreased 6 Percent, Refinance Index Increased 1 Percent)original ↗
3 Sept 2025
US Manufacturing PMI Rises Dramatically To 53 In August, Strongest In Three Years (Chicago Crime Map, West Side Of Chicago Is The Baddest Part Of Town)original ↗
2 Sept 2025
Q3 GDP Forecasts Soars To 3.5% (Equipment And Exports Lead The Way! Residential Investment Down -8.2)original ↗
2 Sept 2025
28 Aug 2025
US Home Prices Drop -0.25% MoM In June (New York And Chicago Biggest Gainers In Price, San Francisco And Tampa Biggest Losers)original ↗
26 Aug 2025
New Home Sales at 652,000 Annual Rate in July (Median Price Declines -5.9% YoY Despite Fed Money Printing)original ↗
25 Aug 2025
Whip It! Recession Warning May Prompt The Fed Into Action (Debt Stress Is Mounting, Recession Warning!)original ↗
24 Aug 2025
People Get Ready! The Fed Might Actually Lower Rates! (But Will They Unwind Their Massive Balance Sheet?)original ↗
22 Aug 2025
Dazed And Confused? Existing Home Sales Rose 0.8% YoY In July, Median Existing Home Prices Up 0.2% From One Year Ago (And Why Fed Rate Cuts Won’t Matter)original ↗
21 Aug 2025
Keep On Printing? Home Price Growth Linked To Fed Money Printing (Cleveland OH Is Fastest Growing City In Terms of Home Prices Tampa FL Fastest Declining)original ↗
20 Aug 2025
Despite A Glut Of 1-Unit Homes For Sale (511k), 627k Units Built In June (Multifamily Starts Soar!)original ↗
19 Aug 2025
Changeling! 511,000 New Homes For Sale In US, Highest Inventory Since October 2007 (Mortgage Rates About The Same As In 2007 But Home Prices Are 87.5% Higher Today Than In 2007!)original ↗
18 Aug 2025
Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow Q3 At 2.5%, Federal Government STILL Spending Like Crazy (Inflation Still Going On)original ↗
15 Aug 2025
Good News! Purchase Mortgage Applications Rose 17 Percent Since Same Week Last Year (Mortgage Refis Surge 23 Percent From Previous Week)original ↗
13 Aug 2025
Good News! Business Applications Booming As Inflation Remains Calm (No Negative Impacts From Tariffs)original ↗
12 Aug 2025
Mortgage Applications Increased 3 Percent From Previous Week (Purchase Apps Rose 1 Percent WoW)original ↗
6 Aug 2025
What The Fed Can’t Fix! Percentage Of 30-Year-Olds Both Married and Homeowners Lowest Since 1950 (Mortgage Rates Near Highest Since 2006)original ↗
4 Aug 2025
July Jobs Report Factoids: Revisions Doomed BLS Commissioner McEntarfer, Native Born Workers Rose While Foreign Born Workers Declined, Federal Workers Declined For Sixth Straight Monthoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025