Showing posts with label Housing 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Housing 2025. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Trump is a con job of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires

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 'Affordability is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump says You need to earn $158,000/year [2.6x = 410,800] for the median home in th...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Owner-occupied housing is in short supply, in part because of pandemic-related panic-buying by 5.4 million in 2020, not because of a post-pandemic illegal alien surge under Joe Biden

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 ... we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens ... Under ...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Well good luck with that JD, at the rate you guys are going it will take you over 30 years to remove 30 million illegals, and that's being optimistic

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  30 Million Illegal Immigrants Raise Housing Prices Vice President JD Vance, FOX News   Stop the deportation thea...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Tucker Carlson is still blaming the Larry Finkelsteins of the world for making houses too expensive for the kids to buy

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  Tucker Carlson vs. Student: Why Attack People Not Central To What's Happening? "Why Aren't You Protesting Larry Fink?"
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to call two different houses his “principal residence” at the same time just like Lisa Cook ROFLMAO

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  Bessent made mortgage claims similar to ones Trump cited to try to fire Fed’s Cook: Report
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Now that we know Fed governor Lisa Cook bought her second home in Atlanta as a vacation home, Trump's Bill Pulte, who falsely accused her of mortgage fraud, has to go

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Housing affordability is up for a second year in a row in 2024, which is better than a sharp stick in the eye

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 Housing affordability hit a record low 17.22% in 2022. That is to say, median household income bought 17.22% of the median sales price of a...

If we make Trump dictator for life maybe he can do for house prices here what he's doing for them in Poland

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Bill Pulte, the too big for his britches nutball who doesn't stay in his lane

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Every nutball era needs its nuts .  
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Mark Pulte, the father of Lisa Cook accuser Bill Pulte, loses homestead exemption on Michigan property after Reuters investigation finds he committed same infraction of which his son accused the Fed governor lol

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Bill is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer.   Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing cl...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Irwin Stelzer: Trump has substituted state capitalism for market capitalism

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    Trump sees off the free-market capitalism that enriched America ... In short, the extent of presidential control of the economy has not...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Donald Trump is such an asshole

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No "innocent until proven guilty" for this guy. It's a blatant power grab which will give him two appointees to Fed governor o...
Monday, August 4, 2025

The cost of groceries is a major source of stress for 53% of US adults according to AP-NORC poll, followed by the cost of housing

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... Esther Bland, 78, who lives in Buckley, Washington, said groceries are a “minor” source of stress — but only because her local food bank...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Housing in a Fed stress test scenario

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The median price of houses sold in the United States in March 1963 was $17,800. Adjusted for inflation to March 2025, that would be $186,...

Every major bank passes stress test from the US Federal Reserve

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507 banks failed in the United States 2008-2014 inclusive, costing the Deposit Insurance Fund nearly $90 billion. Many millions of homes we...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The US Senate's biggest phony, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, boasted he had enough votes to stop Trump's bill, but voted for it all three times in the end

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    The roll call votes are here , here , and here . June 4, 2025, here : Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Wednesday blasted President Donald ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

At 65.6% in 2024, the homeownership rate in the United States matches the 1980 rate, which was an historical high water mark not exceeded until 1997

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 For all the justified complaining about not being able to afford a home, the homeownership rate in 2024 is historically pretty good, one of...

In 2023 housing affordability in the United States bounced off the 2022 low but is still 9.15 points off the more affordable levels of the 1980s

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 The median income in 2022 bought just 17.22% of the median house, the all-time low in the most up-to-date data. In 2023 that rose to 18.89%...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

When core pce inflation was above 2.5% year over year for 27 straight years, we had 10Y yields well above 5 and 30-year mortgages well above 7.5 to go with it

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 1967-1993, inclusive.    
Saturday, April 26, 2025

I worked for a guy once who everyday wore a blue suit without fail

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I remember he officiated at a funeral once, and yep, he wore a blue suit. Even when I visited him at his home he was wearing a blue suit. Mo...