by irdadmin | May 27, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The housing market continues show contracting sales volume. April existing home sales fell 0.4% (SAAR – Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate) from March and 4.4% from last April. Existing home sales have dropped year-over-year 14 months in a row. This is the...
by irdadmin | May 7, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The National Association of Realtors (NAR – existing home sales reports) and the Census Bureau (new home sales reports) report monthly sales on a “seasonally adjusted annualized rate” basis (SAAR). Notwithstanding the reliability – or lack...
by irdadmin | Feb 7, 2019 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“Our advice is to own as little exposure U.S. equity exposure as your career risk allows.” – Martin Tarlie, member of portfolio allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo investment management The following is an excerpt from the latest Short...
by irdadmin | Nov 30, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Note: New homes sales, based on the seasonally adjusted annualized rate metric, are down over 23% from their peak in November 2017. Pending home sales, which translate into existing home sales less canceled contracts (typically failed financing), are down on a...
by irdadmin | Oct 8, 2018 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, U.S. Economy
The Denver Post published an article last week titled, “Major cold front slams Denver housing market in September” (note, weather-wise, September was one of the warmest and driest in many years). Single-family home sales in September plunged 30.5% from...