Protected: THE DAILY DOOM: 2023 Spells Big Trouble For US Economy
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As 2022 drew to a close, once again the overblown hype surrounding fully automated driverless trucking fleets and ubiquitous cross-country journeys in autonomous vehicles—which if Elon Musk and his like are to be believed, should already be here—is exposed as one more chimera in the mist. Far from causing mass unemployment in the professional driving […]
A report from Axios Denver in Colorado. “As the market settles, so will the ‘record-breaking appreciation homeowners have been spoiled with,’ realtor Jeremy Kane at eXp Realty anticipates. ‘This will feel like a pull-back or a loss in value, when really it is just normalizing and will provide opportunities for buyers to make more logical […]
Buyer representation agreements aren’t new, but many buyers’ agents just don’t use them. “We see more buyers in our area calling us directly as the list agent in a property,” said a sales associate with an independent brokerage in Tampa, Florida. “We are allowed to double-side [transaction brokerage]. Buyers’ attitudes appear to be that the […]
More than 160 employees from the now-shuttered Finance of America Mortgage have landed at Go Mortgage, a Columbus, Ohio-based lender. After Finance of America Companies closed its forward mortgage origination unit in October, a total of 21 FoA retail branches transitioned to Go Mortgage, said Steven Reich, a division president at Go Mortgage and former […]
While the selection of a new House Speaker is dominating headlines, Congress should not lose focus on a key issue at the heart of the institution: continuity of Congress. Three developments in the past year have highlighted the urgency of this issue. In an April 2022 report, AEI’s Continuity of Government Commission identified key obstacles […]
This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable […]
On October 27, former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Lebanese President Michael Aoun separately signed a US-brokered agreement defining the maritime border between their two nations. The agreement paves a path to begin the extraction of natural gas from the Karish gas field that lies on the formerly disputed border. But the bargain is […]
The last week of the calendar year is usually a slow time for the mortgage industry, but 2022 was something else. It represented the lowest level of activity in 27 years. “With mortgage rates still well above 6% and the threat of a recession looming, mortgage applications continued to decline over the past two weeks to […]