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Growth in Mortgage Purchasing Power 4 Apr 2013 | 12:29 am
Above is a chart of real median household income and the real purchasing power of the same median household income when utilizing a 30-year mortgage. Said another way, if you kept the fraction of real...
Monetization Innovation 8 Jan 2013 | 09:59 pm
One of the most fascinating new memes to emerge in the last year or two from the econo-web is that of abundance. How is and how will abundance brought on by increased mechanization of production shape...
A Thousand Bucks Buys You a Lot of House Right Now 26 Nov 2012 | 08:06 am
The chart below shows the increasing amounts of money you're able to borrow on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with a $1,000 payment since 1971. I've been meaning to create this chart since I saw Matt Y...
Census ACS 2011 Income Data 21 Sep 2012 | 08:21 am
The Census release the 1-year ACS estimates today on a huge variety of topics. I've been collecting and organizing some of their income data here and have now imported the 2011 income data as well. Fo...
Real House Prices and Real Borrowing Costs 19 Sep 2012 | 07:44 am
The chart above shows real house prices (in orange) defined as the national Case-Shiller index adjusted for inflation via the CPI less shelter series. I've normalized the series to equal 1000 at its m...
Inflations: Consumer Prices and Income 7 May 2012 | 03:33 am
One of the reasons economic and financial systems are so fascinating is that they are complex. Of course this is also one of the reasons why they are so frustrating. A current fascination/frustration ...
Miscellaneous Updates 20 Mar 2012 | 04:01 am
It's been a while since I've done a roundup of site changes here on the blog. While things can sometimes appear quiet on the surface, I'm usually working on refining existing pages on the site or intr...
Asking Prices Go Positive Year/Year 2 Feb 2012 | 01:01 pm
I was reminded by Lee's post on the Case-Shiller numbers (and their inherent lag) to post something about Y/Y asking prices going positive for the first time since I've been keeping track of that data...
US Manufacturing: Output Growth, Employment Decline 13 Jan 2012 | 07:13 pm
Adam Davidson (of Planet Money fame) has an excellent piece on manufacturing in the Atlantic this month. In it he does a superb job of illuminating the shifting landscape for manufacturing employees i...
R&D Spending by the Federal Government 3 Jan 2012 | 01:21 pm
Let me start by saying that this post is more like the beginnings of an exploration rather than something I am trying to draw conclusions with. My interests are the historical role that the government...
