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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk12GgWwUVo A tractor-trailer hauling hazardous material overturned, spilling the fluid and leading to the evacuation of residents and businesses on the west side of McPherson. The McPherson fire chief says the semi was hauling 34,000 pounds of hydrochloric acid. It’s unknown how much has spilled. The truck driver made it out of the semi and …
This was all pre planned. Government printed dollars. Lowered rates to 0%. You thought you were getting free monies to buy LED TV! In reality you were paying for this with your future and the elites were capturing every single asset — from stocks to houses to farm land! https://t.co/eprXRpb8jj — tic toc (@TicTocTick) November …
Weak buyer demand, weakening home prices and overall uncertainty in the economy are combining to make home sellers change their minds and step out of the market. Close to 85,000 U.S. sellers took their homes off the market in September, up 28% from September 2024 and the highest level for that month in eight years, …
New House Prices have dropped below Existing Homes for the first time in history 🚨🤯 pic.twitter.com/ewkqqLydAe — Barchart (@Barchart) November 22, 2025 The U.S. Housing Market is about to get hit by a big demographic shift. By 2032, there will be more deaths than births in the U.S. This crossover point will be the continuation …
Affordability crisis rattling mom-and-pop shops… “Surging import costs. Mounting payroll and healthcare expenses. A shortage of affordable loans. And a stressed-out workforce. Small businesses are facing mounting pressure from America’s affordability crisis. Doug Scheffel, owner of a family-run ETM Manufacturing in Massachusetts, laid off about a quarter of his employees in April as the Trump …
Families don’t delay kids by chance, they do it because the basic math of life is breaking. When a house requires a midlife crisis to afford, the future starts thinning out right in front of us. The average age of a first-time American homebuyer is 40 years old. 40. Years. Old. It was 25 in …
People are starting to owe more than their homes are worth again, sound familiar? This is when people start mailing their keys to the bank and leave After all: Why would you go through the hardship to keep paying on a $400k mortgage when the house is only worth 300k? In 2008 many decided to …
The US housing market is frozen: Only 28 out of every 1,000 homes, or 2.8%, changed hands in the first 9 months of 2025, the least in at least 30 years. The turnover rate has declined -38% since the 2021 peak, when 44 out of every 1,000 homes were sold. By comparison, the rate stood …
LOVING COUNTY, TEXAS — The Texas attorney general has brought a civil lawsuit against an Indiana man who is accused of offering housing to people if they help him “overthrow” the local government in a rural, sparsely populated county in the Lone Star State. According to a news release, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has …
Roughly million homes for sale right now and estimated ~400k will be added from this foreclosure wave 40% supply addition to the market by middle of 2026 — Swingtrader (@Swingtrader) October 20, 2025 Another way of looking at this: If you can afford a median priced home, but choose to rent instead, you have $50,000 …
https://twitter.com/chatnewshub/status/1978311067680837988 An explosion at a New Jersey auto body shop sparked a raging 5-alarm fire that destroyed several neighboring businesses in a “harrowing” scene Tuesday evening, according to authorities and reports. “We had a wall collapse and apparently the entire shopping section of Maple Avenue from Conklin and Winans Avenue has been destroyed,” Hillside Mayor …
S&P – all time highsGold – all time highsSilver – all time highsMag 7 – oh god all time highsBitcoin – sameUS home prices – record levels I don’t know what to invest in anymore. — rohit (@krishnanrohit) October 13, 2025 I’m amazed at how investors can go from almost getting completely wiped out one …
I own 4 homes and I’m terrified. The real estate market feels like it’s standing on the edge of a cliff. My portfolio consists of 3 rentals and 1 primary. What used to feel like stability…now feels like risk. For decades, knowledge workers have fueled the housing market…the engineers, analysts, consultants, and sales reps buying …
Sellers in some US metros are growing so frustrated with the state of the housing market they are de-listing their homes at an alarming rate. Beyond slowing sales and flat prices, de-listings have become a defining feature of this summer’s housing market. Nationally, de-listings rose 57 percent in July compared to the same time last …
The housing market is collapsing, and buyers are running for the exits. They don’t wait. They don’t negotiate. They cancel. They saw the foundation crumble and refused to stand on it. This isn’t a seasonal hiccup. It’s a total retreat, and the institutions that built the illusion are powerless to stop it. “58,000 home-purchase agreements …
The collapse isn’t whispered. It’s marching through neighborhoods, through MLS listings, through every open house where the buyers hesitate, the agents hedge, and the price tags crumble under scrutiny. The illusion of stability has evaporated while 56% of homes now sell below asking, exposing a market that once promised security and now delivers panic and …
The Federal Reserve has turned housing into its private playground, holding trillions in mortgage-backed securities with no legal authority to do so. Every dollar it pumps into the market inflates prices, erodes real ownership, and turns homes into instruments of policy rather than shelter. If this escalates into a “housing emergency,” the next step could …
Beazer Homes is bleeding. A $754 million builder dangling mortgage rate buydowns like meat in a trap. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the pitch is this: “Enjoy 2.99 percent 1st Year* 3.99 percent 2nd Year and 4.99 percent Fixed, Years 3 plus on Select Quick Move-In Homes with Beazer’s Buydown. Hurry. Offer Ends Sunday, August 25” source …
https://twitter.com/rev_cap/status/1962197481111834696 Housing *does* need help, but totally agree if they cut FFR it’ll just make things worse Since cutting cycle of 100bps last sept, 30Y UP 100bps Eventually I also think they try another George W Bush type program (when the rate cuts don’t work)https://t.co/42buOXff4f — Robert (infra 🏛️⌛️) (@infraa_) September 1, 2025 We’re now …
CHINA DROPS A GIANT: WORLD’S BIGGEST WIND TURBINE China just planted the world’s largest offshore wind turbine – a 26-megawatt beast with a massive rotor. Once it’s plugged into the grid, this single unit will pump out 100 million kWh a year – enough juice for 55,000 households. One turbine, an entire city’s worth of …
“The Fed can’t rescue this in its entirety. You’ve got 4M homes in Texas and 42M across the U.S. at risk of bankruptcy or losing the roof over their heads. That’s nearly 38% of households. The money to pay these bonds doesn’t exist. You can’t get blood out of a stone.” When… pic.twitter.com/dSuXD5SIPf — ITM …
Australia’s housing crisis isn’t about affordability anymore. It isn’t even about supply. It has become something darker: a creeping attempt to redefine ownership itself. For decades, the family home was treated as sacred ground, the one place politicians swore would remain beyond the reach of constant taxation and interference. Now that line is being erased. …
Home buyers are paying more for smaller homes, a phenomenon called shrinkflation. A new LendingTree study found new single-family homes have shrunk 11% in the past decade, while their price per square foot has jumped 74%. Driven by surging land, labor, and material costs (compounded by tariffs and worker shortages), builders are trimming square footage …
by confoundedinterest17 The US housing market is a changeling, going from a mega glut during the financial crisis to a tight market, then back to a glut … again. In fact, there are 511,000 new homes for sales in the US, the highest inventory since the financial crisis. Combine all-time high home prices with RELATIVELY …
Interest rates are stuck. Inventory is swelling. Buyers are gone. More than half of all homes now sell below asking. It’s the weakest housing market since 2012. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-market-craters-56-homes-123114860.html Rents are falling, vacancies hitting records. National apartment rents dropped 0.8% year over year in July. The vacancy rate just hit an all-time high as the 2023 …
Meanwhile, the Fed’s policies have made billionaires richer while the rest of the country is stuck. Housing Bubble 2.0 isn’t just slowing. it’s unraveling in plain sight. Lumber prices crashing is just the tip of the iceberg. Builder supply at nearly double the long-term median is screaming recession. History doesn’t lie: 5 of the 6 …
BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market Homeowner Households declined for the first time in 9 years 👀📉 pic.twitter.com/8lUGHnHx93 — Barchart (@Barchart) August 14, 2025 Las Vegas has the 3rd highest home foreclosure rate among major US metro areas as of July pic.twitter.com/0iYxb3C9cx — Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) August 14, 2025 Cheap REITs aren't bargains – …
Mayor Adams announces over 1,000 homeless New Yorkers moved from subways to permanent homes thanks to Subway Safety Plan https://t.co/yL3wWtBzyR pic.twitter.com/MaaFMWwsnS — New York Post (@nypost) August 11, 2025 Over 3,500 homeless New Yorkers have been taken off Big Apple streets and subways and placed in permanent housing since the start of Mayor Eric Adams’ …
When your home is worth less than your mortgage, buyers aren’t bailing you out. Lance Lamberts July’s housing market update; nationwide home values continue to drop. More homes than ever And this is where we are Only go full pic.twitter.com/klCKCUjFGe — Kenny Capital (@KennyCap_Phd) August 10, 2025
What happens to assets when AI eliminates half of the jobs? They stop performing. They deteriorate. Their value drops. “AI could eliminate up to 50 percent of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to between 10 and 20 percent in the next one to five years.” https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic Assets that rely on human hands—homes, cars, …