Today’s podcast discusses the Fed’s lack of urgency regarding housing starts and permits data, which are already at recessionary levels. The Fed has avoided the housing topic for over two years because, as I have discussed, it hasn’t cared about the existing home sales market since June 2022. However, housing construction data does fall into their dual mandate area.
Here is the interview I gave on CNBC last Friday, talking about how consumers have recently been a bit confused about mortgage rates.
Every weekend, HousingWire releases the weekly HousingWire Tracker report, in which I examine the current and forward-looking housing data lines so you can stay up to date with the data lines that matter in housing.
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Logan Mohtashami is a Lead Analyst for Housing Wire, a financial writer, and a blogger covering the U.S. economy with a specialization in the housing market. Logan Mohtashami, now retired, spends his days and nights looking at charts and nothing else.