by irdadmin | Sep 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing Home Sales were released Wednesday and the NAR’s seasonally adjusted annualized rate metric was down 1.7% from July. July was down 1.3% from June. The NAR’s SAAR metric is at its lowest rate since last August. Naturally the hurricane that hit...
by irdadmin | Jul 24, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing home sales declined nearly 2% in June from May on a SAAR basis (Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate). (SAAR is the statistically manipulated metric used by industry organizations and the Government to spin bad monthly economic data into an annualized metric...
by irdadmin | Jun 20, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
As with all other highly manipulated data, the financial media has a blind bias toward the “bullish” story attached to the housing market. Understandable, as the National Association of Realtors spends more on special interest interest lobbying in Congress...
by irdadmin | Feb 22, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Toll Brothers reported its Fiscal Q1 earnings this morning. Year over for the quarter: Revenues declined nearly 1%, operating income plunged 46.8%, net income dropped 4.1%. Net income was boosted by the reliable accounting management technique of reducing the...
by irdadmin | Dec 21, 2016 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
I’m going to have to throw a flag on the existing home sales report for November published today by the National Association of Realtors. The NAR would have us believe that home sales occurred in November at 5.6mm annualized rate for the month, up 15.4% from...
