Median household income and housing affordability
…Census Bureau released their annual report on median household income for the US, covering 2020. Since this is the best measure to gauge housing affordability, rather than average wages or…
…Census Bureau released their annual report on median household income for the US, covering 2020. Since this is the best measure to gauge housing affordability, rather than average wages or…
…August (pdf) from the Census Bureau reported that the value of the widely watched new orders for manufactured durable goods increased by $4.6 billion or 1.8 percent to $263.5 billion in August,…
…Census Bureau…in addition, the Fed released the Consumer Credit Report for August, which indicated that overall consumer credit, a measure of non-real estate debt, grew at a seasonally adjusted $14.4 billion…
…September after retail sales for July and August were revised higher . . . the Advance Retail Sales Report for September (pdf) from the Census Bureau estimated that our seasonally adjusted retail…
…downward trend or not. Here is what the four Census regions of the country look like over the past 12 months: Note that the winter wave began at the beginning…
…goods for September and the September report on new home sales, both from the Census bureau, and the widely watched Case-Shiller Home Price Index for August, an index generated by averaging relative home…
…census regions still show a decline, but West and Midwest regions show increases: One week ago only 3 States were in the “increasing” category. Now the increasing trend States include:…
…Commerce Dept report on our International Trade for September, and the September report on Construction Spending (pdf) and the Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders for September, both from the Census…
…from the Census Bureau reported that the value of the widely followed new orders for manufactured durable goods decreased by $1.2 billion or 0.5 percent to $260.1 billion in October,…
…New England is also very close to that 75% mark, and the rest of the Northeastern US Census region is not too far behind. Here’s what that region’s vaccination vs….