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Jerome Powell Visits Dallas Fed – Global Perspectives In Oblivion
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Jerome Powell Visits Dallas Fed – Global Perspectives In Oblivion

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Jerome Powell Visits Dallas Fed – Global Perspectives In Oblivion

Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, visited the Dallas Federal Reserve yesterday to cap the Dallas bank's Global Perspectives series. Aside from pontificating about global economic perspectives, the meeting between Robert Kaplan and Jerome Powell was insightful for many reasons. Kaplan reminded the audience of Powell's policy experience which includes time as partner at private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Listening to a Goldman Sachs alum toss softball questions to a Carlyle alum is one way, I suppose, to placate a concerned public that the economy is still healthy and the Fed is on the ball, [...]

By Aaron Layman|2022-01-05T03:36:55+00:00November 15th, 2018|Denton County Real Estate, Denton TX Real Estate, DFW Real Estate, Economy, Markets, Mortgage Rates, Politics, Real Estate, Spin Cycle|1 Comment

QE Or Bust – US Yield Curve Continues To Flatten
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QE Or Bust – US Yield Curve Continues To Flatten

Collin County Home Prices, Denton County Home Prices, Denton Tx Home Prices, Economy, Housing Market, Housing Policy, Markets, Mortgage Rates, Politics, Real Estate, Spin Cycle, Texas Home Prices

QE Or Bust – US Yield Curve Continues To Flatten

Behold the flattening U.S. yield curve! Reading through the latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, you might get the impression that things are still humming along just fine. After all total household debt just hit a new high in the latest survey posting at $12.96 trillion. Mortgage debt is still below the previous bubble peak, so home buyers would appear to be doing doing just fine. If you peak below the headline metrics, however, you begin to see some cracks in the "everything is awesome" narrative. One of the first things that stands [...]

By Aaron Layman|2017-11-15T16:13:25+00:00November 15th, 2017|Collin County Home Prices, Denton County Home Prices, Denton Tx Home Prices, Economy, Housing Market, Housing Policy, Markets, Mortgage Rates, Politics, Real Estate, Spin Cycle, Texas Home Prices|0 Comments

Foreign Buyers Still Flooding U.S. Real Estate Market

The the volume of foreign buyers buying U.S. residential real estate rose dramatically during the latest 12-month survey from the National Association of Realtors. The 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate shoes that the dollar volume of purchases by foreign buyers rose from $102.6 billion in 2016 to $153 billion in the latest 12-month period ending in March. In all, foreign buyers purchased 284,455 U.S. residential properties accounting for 5 percent of existing home sales and 10% of existing home sales by dollar volume. If you were wondering what's been driving the [...]

By Aaron Layman|2017-10-28T12:48:15+00:00July 19th, 2017|Housing Policy, International Real Estate, Real Estate, Texas Home Prices, Texas Real Estate|0 Comments

New Home Sales Rebound In May

The Census Bureau reported a rebound for new home sales in May. New residential home sales posted at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000. This was 2.9 percent higher than the revised April numbers and 8.9 percent higher than a year ago. The median price of a new home contracted in May was $345,800 while the average new home price in May came in at $406,400. Just like we saw with existing home sales this week, median home prices hit a new all-time high. New home sales volume, while up from last month, is [...]

By Aaron Layman|2022-08-06T13:29:09+00:00June 23rd, 2017|Economy, Existing Home Sales, Housing Policy, New Home Sales, Real Estate, Texas Home Prices, Texas Real Estate|0 Comments

Texas Housing Market Meets The Fed’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Economy

The latest issue of Tierra Grande is out, and it contains more examples of the Federal Reserve's fingerprints on the Texas housing market. This new batch of evidence is contained in an article titled 'Game of Homes - The Supply-Demand Struggle'. What is thoroughly entertaining is that the two Dallas Fed employees (both recent college graduates apparently) working on this latest missive appear to completely ignore their employer's responsibility for the distortions in the Texas housing market while making a complete mockery of the economics profession. Collaborating with a PhD from TAMU, they lay out [...]

By Aaron Layman|2016-11-20T13:26:48+00:00October 23rd, 2016|Economy, In the Press, Politics, Real Estate, Spin Cycle|0 Comments

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Jerome Powell Visits Dallas Fed – Global Perspectives In Oblivion

QE Or Bust – US Yield Curve Continues To Flatten