The Fed really f**ked us on this, interest rates should’ve stayed high and kept pressure on housing prices
Starter homes should not cost $400,000. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance
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Changeling! 511,000 New Homes For Sale In US, Highest Inventory Since October 2007 (Mortgage Rates About The Same As In 2007 But Home Prices Are 87.5% Higher Today Than In 2007!)
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 …
Are You Drowning Too?: Vegetables Are Up 38.9%, Coffee is Up 25%, And Electricity Prices Are Rising Twice As Fast As Inflation
by Michael Do you feel knots in your stomach due to financial stress? If so, you certainly have lots of company. All of a sudden, everyone is talking about the cost of living and prices are rising by double-digit percentages all around us. There are so many people out there right now that feel like they are …
Home prices are about to turn negative again. Homebuyers HALTING sales of overpriced houses.
Home prices are about to turn negative again. I illustrated the last several year of home prices to show what's under way. pic.twitter.com/OZGqCtMypQ — Mike Simonsen 🐉 (@mikesimonsen) August 16, 2025 Transfer of power to the buyers. 🤙🙌 pic.twitter.com/mTIec4zllk — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 17, 2025
Beef prices are ridiculous. $22 per pound for New York Strip steak in Florida now
Beef prices are ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/RU4c95tWb7 — Molly Ploofkins (@Mollyploofkins) August 11, 2025 Is now a good time to talk about grocery prices? https://t.co/em3qyQW8YU pic.twitter.com/L16fZ7bMvN — Miss Aja (@brat2381) August 2, 2025 Thanks to Trump's tariffs, the price of ground beef ($6.34/lb) and beef steaks ($11.88/lb) have both reached an ALL-TIME high. Trump's USDA forecasts the …
PPI came in hotter than expected! Foreign producers refuse to cut prices despite tariffs
HOLY FCUK NEVER SEEN A HOTTER PPI OMG Expectation was .2 % It came in at 1% 😱 — tic toc (@TicTocTick) August 14, 2025 Blowout PPI pic.twitter.com/GIHSOuSS1o — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) August 14, 2025 PPI. pic.twitter.com/NYsazFsA0x — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) August 14, 2025 Core PPI has risen by 0.6% . The services sector inflation has risen …
People Will Be Insane As Rising Food Prices And Empty Shelves Get Even Worse In The Months Ahead
Today we’re talking about something that’s hitting all of us hard. Your grocery bill. If you’ve noticed your food costs going through the roof lately, you’re not crazy. And here’s the thing – it’s about to get much worse. Let’s talk real numbers here. Food prices jumped 0.3% just in June. That’s 3% higher than …
Trump policies fuel Las Vegas tourism slump and soaring prices
Las Vegas dropped 11.3 percent in June. This is not a seasonal blip. It’s a deep change. Room rates fell 6.6 percent to $163.64. Hotel occupancy dropped 6.5 percent. Convention attendance fell 10.7 percent. Harry Reid Airport traffic was down 6.3 percent. International arrivals dropped nearly 10 percent. Visitors vanished. But gaming revenue? It went …
If Mamdani wins, landlords flee, cops walk, Wall Street prices collapse and voters won’t be around to pay for it.
If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City, it will happen fast. Betting markets put him at 80%. The wealthy are already planning to leave. This will not be slow change. It will be a jolt. https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1955004486285701246 Cops are already looking to leave. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says NYPD officers will head south, where they get …
How can the UK ever reduce its electricity prices?
via notayesmanseconomics: This morning has brought news that in many ways I consider to be welcome. Scottish wind farms were paid not to produce 37 per cent of their planned output during the first half of this year, as the electricity could not be used locally or moved to where it was needed. ( Financial …
Wyoming AI data center to use more power than entire state households; Data centers drive electricity prices up while residents pay the cost
Wyoming’s new AI data center will consume five times more electricity than the entire state’s households combined. Yet no one knows who’s behind it. Located near Cheyenne, the facility will begin with a 1.8-gigawatt capacity and expand to 10 gigawatts more than five times the power used by every home in Wyoming. “The initial 1.8-gigawatt …
Nasdaq 100 volume summation index falls sharply while prices hit new highs. Bubbles don’t just pop they do a full acrobatic routine first
Warning to young investors margin and leverage can turn market dips into financial disasters. The composite Nasdaq volume have been screwy lately due to some heavy share volume in penny stocks, so I am leery about trusting any insights from those data. Here is the traditional (not ratio-adjusted) Volume Summation Index for the stocks in …
Real-world inflation still raging despite optimistic claims. US money supply hits record high. Commodities surge 12 percent
It's interesting to see some people claim inflation is slowing. The equal-weighted commodities index is up 12% in the past year. That’s real-world inflation. Meanwhile, US money supply just hit a new high, and the dollar is weakening sharply against other currencies, including… pic.twitter.com/xYS56p7DeX — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) August 9, 2025 Commodities surged 12% …
Fed plans rate cuts while markets and prices hit record highs. Consumers cut back hard, fast food chains show how broke Americans really are
The Fed is about to cut rates while everything else hits all-time highs. Stocks, homes, rents, bitcoin, gold, household wealth — all at records. Unemployment sits at 4.2%. Inflation stays high. J.P. Morgan expects four rate cuts to bring the policy rate to 3.5%. https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-08-08/j-p-morgan-sees-fed-cutting-rates-at-each-of-its-next-four-meetings But Americans are struggling. Fast food sales dropped hard last …
Shrinkflation explodes in 2025 with snacks, toiletries and everyday items shrinking while prices rise
Are you tired of paying more and getting less every time you go shopping? Shrinkflation has gone TOO FAR, and companies are secretly ripping us all off with sneaky product downsizing and hidden price hikes. In this video, we expose the truth about shrinkflation and how major brands are quietly shrinking package sizes while charging …
Housing prices must fall at least 30% to reach basic affordability. Your parents bought homes with 17% interest and still paid less than you do now
Housing prices would need to fall about 30% before basic affordability returns to most U.S. cities. Experts say mortgage rates must drop to around 4.4% for a typical home to fit within the affordability rule of 30% of median income. https://fortune.com/2025/07/30/mortgage-rates-housing-affordability-zillow-report Right now the average thirty year mortgage rate sits near 6.8%, despite being well …
Trump claims he’s cut drug prices by “1,500 percent”
Trump claims he’s cut drug prices by “1,500 percent” pic.twitter.com/n9meMZxS6R — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2025
Luxury margin, meet luxury pain: Guess luxury cars don’t sell well at tariff‑inflated prices.
German luxury carmakers just got steamrolled. Trump-era tariffs are still biting. EV demand is soft. China is turning away. Even with a draft trade deal in the works, the earnings bloodbath is already here. Mercedes collapsed first. “Revenue fell 10 % to €33.15 billion ($38.82 billion), and adjusted EBIT dropped 68 % to €1.273 billion ($1.47 billion). Net profit fell nearly 70 % to €957 million …
Prices climb, jobs vanish, camps grow: nobody voted for this
Let’s break it down. Inflation is eating everything. Since 2020, prices are up more than 20% across the board. Groceries, rent, gas, insurance. All higher. Wages? Barely moved. The average paycheck rose less than 14% in that same time. That means workers are losing money every year. Jobs aren’t what they used to be. Openings …
Can home prices fall to 2021 prices? Yes.
https://x.com/TicTocTick/status/1952034086463144416 How frickin sad. Crashing demographics is the biggest threat we have to our future. H/t @peruvian_bull https://t.co/URuv1y8gEU — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 3, 2025 Crazy stats. Doesn’t leave many buyers left does it? https://t.co/cD1fRuermI — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 3, 2025 1) For perspective, today's homeowner equity levels are north of 115% of GDP, …
Goldman said buy copper then prices tanked fast
Just in: Goldman Sachs told clients to go long copper just a day before the price crashed. pic.twitter.com/htDRa5TPZ4 — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) August 1, 2025 Goldman Sachs told clients to buy copper just one day before the price crashed. On July 29, the bank recommended short-term call options, betting on a 50% tariff on …
Inflation hits 2.6% in June. Tariffs push prices up, Fed says pain may last
Inflation rose in June to 2.6 percent annually, higher than economists expected. The Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge, the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, showed prices increasing as tariffs on imported goods pushed costs up. Vanguard analysts said, “Core goods … should reflect substantial growth due to tariffs, especially on sensitive categories like household furnishings …
Rate cuts won’t save housing. Prices too high, wages too low. Crash risk rising.
Housing is more broken than most admit. Cutting rates won’t fix it. Prices remain too high and wages too low to afford a home. Inventory shortages in key regions make matters worse. First-time buyers are pushing 40 years old on average. That shows how the market locks out younger generations. Albert Edwards, known for predicting …
Home prices aren’t collapsing, they’re flattening as Boomers sell and younger buyers struggle to fill the gap
The housing boom feels permanent until it isn’t. Case‑Shiller data showed home prices slowing again in May, with the 20-city index up just 2.3 % year-over-year and down 0.3 % from April. That marks one of only a few outright declines in modern memory, alongside 2008’s crash and 2022’s Fed tightening cycle ﹙raw data via Zillow and …
Airline’s Sneaky Plan To JACK UP Ticket Prices!
Delta Airlines has announced an expansion of its use of AI-powered dynamic surge pricing, which could soon entirely replace fixed ticket prices with personalized fares based on consumer data. Critics argue this practice is exploitative, with flight prices rising over 25% in two years while airline service quality continues to decline. Guest host Misty Winston …
Home prices plummeting in the South (Fed emergency rate cuts incoming)
Is Donald Trump going to fire Jerome Powell? And what will the impact be on the housing market? It seems likely that the Fed will cut interest rates over the next year, which could re-stimulate the housing market. And potentially push home prices up. But will that actually happen? Home prices are dropping in many …
Grocery prices now change 100 times a day. Crypto thefts top $2.17B. Housing just posted its worst spring in 13 years. Buffett Indicator hits 212%. Inflation expectations rising.
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% YoY. Eggs dropped 10.8% in …
Zillow thrives as housing market freezes: 230 million users scroll while prices fall and lawsuits mount
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 revenue jumped double digits. Stock’s …