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California just redefined “low income” and it no longer means what people think it does. A single person earning $111,700 in Santa Clara County now qualifies. In San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties, the line is set at $109,700. These are the official income limits for 2025, released by …
Grocery prices now change 100 times a day. Walmart’s electronic shelf labels are live in 1,000+ stores, with 2,300 targeted by December. Kroger’s rollout is ahead of schedule. Labels update based on time, inventory, competitor pricing, and weather. USDA’s July 25 forecast shows food-at-home prices rose 0.2% MoM, up 2.4% …
Zillow’s traffic hit 230 million monthly visitors while home sales collapsed to a 30-year low. Inventory climbed 17 percent year over year to 1.36 million listings. Price cuts reached 26.6 percent of active listings in June. Mortgage rates hover near 7 percent. Sellers won’t list. Buyers won’t bite. Zillow’s Q2 …
In 2008 and again in 2020, similar steep drops in credit were quickly followed by aggressive Fed rate cuts and liquidity injections. This time, we’re seeing the same kind of credit contraction, but the Fed is still holding rates high, and there’s no sign of emergency fiscal support coming either. …
ICE arrests 243 criminal illegal migrants in Denver, capturing Tren de Aragua gang members, child sex offenders, human traffickers. Previously: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston grilled, threatened with jail during congressional hearing over immigration policies. Johnston also quoted from the Bible as he spoke to the panel. “As mayor I have to …
U.S. homeowners now hold $34 trillion in home equity, nearly three times the level seen during the 2006 housing bubble. As a share of GDP, this is the highest housing wealth in American history. U.S. homeowners have $34 trillion in equity. That's almost triple the levels in the 2006 bubble. …
Housing Bubble 2.0 is bursting, and the wipeout of Yellen Bux "wealth" is going to be epic byu/Boo_Randy_II inWallstreetsilver Foreclosures climb in this major city—and even the most elite ZIP codes aren’t spared New York City saw a double-digit increase in foreclosure rates this spring, with mortgage defaults affecting even …
The American ethos places way too much importance on having a house. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t. Right now it doesn’t from a rent vs buy perspective, especially if you need to take out a mortgage. It might in a few years after prices mean revert. pic.twitter.com/aweWIcMS1h — …
Sales crash 12% as condo market sees 80% more sellers than buyers. BREAKING: The median US condo sale price declined -2.2% YoY in May, to $354,100, marking the second-largest decrease since at least 2012. The only time condo prices dropped by a larger amount was in April 2023, by -2.9%. …
Many homebuyers, investors, and realtors are now wondering – will these Fed Rate Cuts stimulate the housing market? And cause more homebuyers to come back to the market? In this video, Reventure Consulting analyzes the data on home price affordability and finds that the U.S. Housing Market is a long …
Just need to fall 40% pic.twitter.com/L1nTzY4c4G — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) July 3, 2025 U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/KqBbG5Dpmw — Barchart (@Barchart) July 3, 2025 The market just dropped hard and anyone rushing to catch it is risking serious injury. The warning signs …
I must admit the situation is getting funny. First of all I’m not a big fan of Powell, because I think this guy has already lost a powerful game hitting 10Y/3M 1000 days in inversion beating previous 1929 record 700 days. Reality is : if even that’s his achievement – …
First housing, then stocks. pic.twitter.com/7DxcZmLPfW — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) July 2, 2025 Whoops… ADP job gains / losses. pic.twitter.com/NMW8j88gKd — Fibonacci Investing⚡️ (@FibonacciInves1) July 2, 2025
Zohran Mamdani: "We will slowly buy up the housing on the private market and convert properties into communes" pic.twitter.com/u7RQxaERYt — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 1, 2025 Communism…with animation. https://t.co/fq4kzNVzCr — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 2, 2025
The housing sector is lining up behind Trump’s flagship legislation. The “Big Beautiful Bill” cleared the Senate on July 1 and now heads back to the House, where its housing provisions are drawing full-throated support from the industry’s biggest players. The National Association of REALTORS, Mortgage Bankers Association, and National …
California’s housing market is slowing in 2025, with inventory skyrocketing and home values now dropping on a month-over-month basis.
The housing market is not just cooling. It is cracking. The latest data from May 2025 shows existing home sales running at an annualized pace of 4.03 million units. That is the weakest May since 2009. It is also the second-worst May on record. Sales have now declined year over …
The surface numbers are holding. The real prices are not. In Q1 2025, the median list price for a newly built home in the United States was $448,393. That is down just 0.3% from the same time last year. On paper, the market looks flat. But the paper is lying. …
Record 14 million homes set to flood market. There is a US record 14 million homes coming to market over the next 5 years (assuming no housing crash). With only 4.3 million households being formed — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 26, 2025 ALERT: US population growth has completely collapsed Reaching …
Boomers make up 20% of the US Population They own 40% of all the houses They are dying at the fastest pace on record — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 24, 2025 check this pic.twitter.com/ubWtmGj5Y9 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 24, 2025 Boomers be like, here's this $500,000 house for the …
Home prices in formerly hot pandemic markets are now starting to fall. Mortgage rates remain stubbornly high, with no sign of dropping. Prices are unlikely to drop dramatically, as there are still too few homes for sale. Rising supply and slowing demand in the housing market are finally causing prices …
America’s most expensive housing market is right here in the bay area in Santa Clara county as far as large areas where people actually live. But even here the housing market is showing signs of cracking with inventory. Starting to pile up price is getting stale and more homes with …
Funds still underwater after 2016 bets, private equity risk eclipses public markets… – Yale is withdrawing $6 billion from private equity. But according to them, there's nothing to read into that, so they claim. – Private equity continues to underperform publicly listed equities across every major time horizon: one …
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York just confirmed it. Total household debt hit $18.2 trillion in Q1 2025. That’s a $167 billion increase in three months. Mortgage balances alone rose by $199 billion, now sitting at $12.8 trillion. Credit card debt stands at $1.18 trillion. Student loans are back …
Housing market and economic analyst, Amy Nixon, says that America is trapped in a demographic nightmare that could crash home prices and the economy, but will the ICE deportations make the crash even worse?
"We are going to discover just like we did from the 2005-2008 time period, that this perception that there is an incredible shortage of housing is simply wrong." pic.twitter.com/BGlNAraweK — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 19, 2025 we know what's going on pic.twitter.com/3qd615gfqm — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 20, 2025 There …
