BREAKING NEWS: researchers have now quintupled the housing shortage!!! prices came down loving that used-home smell small houses, all the rage Biggest housing shortage of all...
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US homes have been getting more affordable since the 70s
When the shortage bros accidentally demonstrate that zoning is a trivial part of the story. Random Walk will make it two antagonistic posts in a row. Enjoy. housing shortage...
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The secret to growth is… how the US has outperformed the OECD
More people, more growth Longtime Random Walk readers know that babymaking and people-growth (and/or the lack thereof) are very important things. It’s pretty simple, really: if...
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Commercial real estate turning a corner (and other real estate charts)
Commercial real estate turning a corner? CMBS special servicing rates keep rising (and that’s good) net-new distress is smaller conditions are getting Sloos desiderata on REITs,...
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Six charts no one expected to see when rates went up
Just some mysteries from the world of borrowing, risk, and price signals. And we’re back, after a marathon Jewish holiday season. lossmaking smallcaps increase (and the crowd...
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Traffic, commuting and WFH
back to the [coffee] grind hybrid reigns supreme, but some blacksiding at the water cooler 10 best commute times congestion winners and losers . . . woe to Denver Congestion on...