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Iran War Tax Filters Into Housing Market

The Iran War Tax is filtering into the housing market. Inflationary pressures from higher fuel costs are now eating away at housing demand while Americans' household budgets get slammed with yet another policy blunder. The spring of 2026 was poised to see a rebound in housing activity. Resale inventory has returned to the market and mortgage interest rates seemed like they might stabilize below six percent. Those green shoots for North Texas real estate have been upended by the Trump administration's colossal blunder in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. Fuel prices are up [...]

Denton County Residents Endure Loss and Hardship in Texas Power Grid Failure

Thousands of Denton County residents endured power outages, water outages and other hardships during the past week. Dozens of people have died across the state due to weather-related events, and the federal government has declared Texas a national disaster. The sad part is that the power outages and rolling blackouts leading to loss of life and untold economic damage was largely a preventable, man-made disaster. All the warning signs were there, but the warnings were ignored, and many power generators brushed off the risk of a major winter event in Texas' loosely regulated electricity market. [...]

Reckoning Awaits For Inflated North Texas Real Estate Market

The reckoning awaits for the hyper-financialized north Texas real estate market.  It may take a few months for reality to sink in, but the writing is on the wall regardless of the efforts of housing industry pundits and professional economists to downplay the damage. The hopes of a v-shaped recovery are vanishing faster than the toilet paper on the shelves of your local grocery store. Many of the supposed experts, like the PhD economists employed at the Texas Real Estate Center at A&M, have turned a blind eye to the artificial inflation in Texas real [...]

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