The 2000s were the slowest decade of population growth in the US since the Great Depression. The first set of state population counts for 2011 revealed that there has been no change to this trend. The US experienced the lowest…
Tag Archives: US housing market
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The US: living in a lower population growth environment
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- unemployment, US
Posted January 6th, 2012
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The July RICS survey continued the worrying trend of weaker UK data that has been in evidence since the preliminary UK Q2 GDP data release on July 23rd. It seems that the economic slowdown that has been evident in the…
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US housing crash now worse than during the Great Depression
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- property market, US
Posted June 5th, 2008
US data released last week showed that US house prices fell by 14.4% in the year to the end of March (this is the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite-20 Index, which the market tends to focus more on – the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite-10 Index…
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US housing downturn worst since Great Depression – and getting worse
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- property market, US
Posted February 28th, 2008
Investors are almost becoming blasé to dire US housing market data releases, but the reality is that things are getting worse and worse. The monthly S&P/Case-Shiller figures that came out on Tuesday showed that the US housing market downturn is…
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Housing market : Down down, deeper and down
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- mortgages, property market
Posted January 30th, 2008
The US housing market is getting worse and worse, and the UK looks set to follow it. Yesterday saw the monthly update on the disaster that is the US housing market. Figures showed that the downturn is accelerating – the…
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Stefan and I had a research trip to see our New York counterparties at the end of last week. Two key themes emerged. Firstly, when we were there a year ago, many of the Wall Street strategists were cautious on…










