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Can we still avoid a recession?

Housing Wire

In addition, prices paid for transportation of products from China to the U.S. Now, this stressful aspect of transportation costs is gone and the fear of a downturn in the freight industry is taking hold. However, the biggest component of inflation isn’t the transportation cost of goods from China to the U.S.,

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Amazon news raises new recession red flag

Housing Wire

Job growth was widespread, led by gains in leisure and hospitality, in manufacturing, and in transportation and warehousing. For a more traditional economic expansion and recession, here is the model backtested with the housing bubble years, in which the red flags were all up in 2006. percent, the U.S.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

Home prices are overheating, mortgage rates are inching up from the start of the year and the supply of homes is in an unseasonable valley – far from its Mt. Today, 37% of all buyers are Millennials and they comprise about 54% of all mortgage applications. of mortgages underwater); Multnomah County (Portland), Ore. points at 34.