…close to recent sales in their neighborhood, and buyers, sensing prices are declining, will wait for even lower prices. This means real estate markets do not clear immediately, and what…

…home prices are at an extreme beyond even the peak of the housing bubble, while existing home prices are about 5% under theirs but unlike then, when apartment vacancies were…

…prices prices lead inventory Turning to the reports, in June, the 20-city Case Shiller house price index rose 0.5% m/m: House prices are clearly still rising.   On a YoY%…

April 10 2022 Natural Gas Prices RJS, Focus on Fracking, Summary; US natural gas prices hit 13 year high on falling production, falling inventories Oil prices ended the week lower…

…In the meantime, today let’s update the situation with energy prices. And here, the news is unequivocally good. Oil prices, as of this morning, are under $83/barrel. They have remained…

2023 data begins with another lesson: the remedy for high prices is – high prices  – by New Deal democrat And so, another year begins. And kicks off with a look…

Housing prices continue to come down – like a feather  – by New Deal democrat As I’ve repeated many times in the past 10 years, in housing prices follow sales with…

…large moves in gas prices affect the economy almost immediately (as in, “the remedy for high prices, is high prices.”) But note the exceptions of 2006 and 2016. In both…

…report, released this morning. While final demand prices were unchanged, commodity prices increased 1.0% in the month alone. Combined with January, commodity prices have already risen 2.5% this year, the…

…tariffs on these prices. We follow the approach used in our previous study, which analyzed the effect of the 2018-2019 tariffs on prices for goods exported to the U.S. In that earlier…