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Turmoil in the housing market and its impact on the “median price.” By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Across the US, despite record low mortgage rates, sales of “existing homes” – closed transactions … Read more
75% of small businesses cannot last a month with zero revenues. The median cash buffer is 27 days. This is why we need serious supply measures to allow businesses to … Read more
At yesterday's close, the 10% of S&P 500 stocks with the most extreme valuations have median price/revenue ratios just 11% from 2000 extremes. Of course, that decile suffered median losses … Read more
Here we are again. US yield curve inversions are back up to 50%! More rate cuts ahead? Just a reminder, folks: Core & median CPI are already at decade highs. … Read more
by Laura52872 Trump’s source is here, www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/15/its_a_middle-class_boom_141497.html How much of the monetary gains from the Trump economic speedup have gone to the middle class? If you ask Democratic senators and presidential … Read more
by academiaadvice Source: NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index | www.nahb.org/research/housing-economics/housing-indexes/housing-opportunity-index.aspx | Adjusted for inflation using CPI-U: www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/consumer-price-index-and-annual-percent-changes-from-1913-to-2008/ | Tools: Excel; Datawrapper
by BoMcCreadyOC Tool: Tableau Source: ACS
by hammertime84 I took the data from here and made the visualization with plotly.js. An interactive version (you can hover over dots to get info and control the scroll on the right) … Read more
by shewent (Tools) Basic Excel (Source) CPI 1984-2017 (manually adjusted income and housing prices to 2017 dollars using average cpi per year) data frombeta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0 Median Sales Price of New Homes Sold … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In some cities, you get what is considered a walk-in closet of a McMansion. It’s not totally fair to compare rents in Tulsa with rents in … Read more
by traxtar3 Taking a data analytics course. Needed to compile and visually represent something from a very large data set. I compiled the obesity and diabetes and compared them to … Read more
That is just INSANE! Highest One Bedroom Median Rent Prices (Bay Area Locations in bold): San Francisco ($3,690 / month) Mountain View ($3,450) Emeryville ($3,050) New York … Read more
via visualcapitalist: Earlier this week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation published their annual letter that highlights the surprises they saw in 2018, as well as the philanthropic opportunities they’ve identified for the … Read more
via akos_barta: Data sources: Median home values (August 2018): zillow.com/data Mortgage rates: zillow.com/mortgage-calculator Interest rates: The live market rates from the Zillow Mortgage Calculator The amount spent on housing is 30% of the … Read more
via Fye_Maximus: Full Article Here I got the data on how much is required to buy a home in each state from from HowMuch.Net, Their analysis uses home price data from Zillow … Read more
via @OccupyWisdom : THREAD: 1/ THIS NEEDS ADDRESSING#FinTwit, Please stop telling me that “median personal #income” doesn’t matter bc most households have 2 or more incomes. Don’t you realize that this IS … Read more