New York Commie Mayor De Blasio: Plans Ban on Construction of Glass and Steel Skyscrapers “They Have No Place on Earth”
Democrats want to undo America. They hate this country. h/t Jwnlwplus4
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Retail sales, Construction spending, Chem activity, Apartment vacancy, Equity flows, South Korea exports, Trump comments
by WARREN MOSLER Not looking good: Not looking good: In contraction: South Korea March exports contract for fourth month (Reuters) Overseas sales slid 8.2 percent in annual terms in March. … Read more
Roreign direct investment, Construction spending, Durable goods orders, New home sales
by WARREN MOSLER Gone negative year over year adjusted for inflation: This series looks to me like it’s flattened and adjusted for inflation remains well below 2008 highs, and … Read more
US Residential Construction Spending Sees 6th Straight Month of Decline
by confoundedinterest Today is a double whammy for bad news for the US economy. First, The Census Bureau monthly construction spending report reveals that highway and street spending rose 11.7% in … Read more
More Lousy Data Emerges after Government Shutdown: Construction Spending
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Residential Construction Skids, Nonresidential Construction Stagnates. The delay gave markets a break from lousy data. OK, it looks like GDP growth, released last week for the … Read more
Construction spending, Auto sales, Personal income and spending, Trump on the $
by WARREN MOSLER Bad. All sectors decelerating and residential looking down year over year: U.S. auto sales tumbled 2.8 percent in February (Detroit News) Overall sales for the month … Read more
Upward Momentum: Charting a Year of Skyscraper Construction
by visualcapitalist Ever since the first towering spires broke through the clouds in New York and Chicago, skyscrapers have remained a potent symbol of economic might. The tallest buildings require vast … Read more
Pentagon is prepared to give $3 billion to fund construction of the President’s southern border wall, if he were to declare a national emergency.
#BREAKING: Defense department officials say the Pentagon is prepared to give $3 billion to fund construction of the President's southern border wall, if he were to declare a national emergency. … Read more
Israel vs. America – The Per Capita Cost Of Border Wall Construction
by Duane Norman, Free Market Shooter Left: Israel’s West Bank Wall – Right: Proposed US Border Wall Prototypes President Trump’s stare-down with Democrat leaders Pelosi and Schumer over $5.7 billion in funding for a … Read more
Construction spending, Smart phones
by WARREN MOSLER Looking very weak: Highlights Construction has been a soft spot of the economy evident once again in October where spending fell 0.1 percent for the third straight decline … Read more
Toronto Construction Executive Michael Beattie Rebrands with Beattie Infrastructure Inc.
Toronto-based business executive Michael Beattie has decided to move forward with the realignment of his construction business, renaming it Beattie Infrastructure, Inc. Beattie’s parent company, MBM Investments Corp., will continue … Read more
Resurrected Abengoa & Construction Giant OHL Flirt with Collapse
After years of dodgy accounting and mismanagement. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The past five days have been brutal for two once-emblematic Spanish companies, Abengoa and … Read more
“A cyclical downturn in construction sector growth is underway”
via Jill Mislinski A cyclical downturn in construction sector growth is underway, and set to intensify. We know this from monitoring leading indexes specific to major sectors of the economy, whose distinct cyclical … Read more
ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: “Construction Crumbling”
via Jill Mislinski This morning’s release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 145.7, up from the previous week’s 145.6. Year-over-year the four-week moving … Read more
The Dow Construction Index Led Stocks By 26 Months in 2006… What Is It Saying Now?
By Harry Dent I was one of the few, along with Robert Shiller, predicting that the real estatebubble in the U.S. was getting ready to burst back in late 2005. Home … Read more
Construction of Trump’s border wall to begin in February
From USA Today: $145 million contract has been awarded to start the construction of a border wall along the U.S. Mexico border in Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. … Read more