Saturday, December 20, 2025

Schedule for Week of December 21, 2025

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! Special Note: There is still uncertainty on when some economic reports will be released. For example,...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Lawler: Another Strange NAR Reading on Northeast Median Sales Prices

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Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Another Strange NAR Reading on Northeast Median Sales Prices Excerpt: While t...

Newsletter: NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.13 million SAAR in November

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Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.13 million SAAR in November Excerpt: The four...

NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.13 million SAAR in November

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From the NAR: NAR Existing-Home Sales Report Shows 0.5% Increase in November Month-over-month • 0.5% increase in existing-home sales – seas...

Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 1.6% Year-over-year

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Hotel occupancy was weak over the summer months, due to less international tourism.  The fall months are mostly domestic travel and occupanc...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Friday: Existing Home Sales

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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • At 10:00 AM ET,  Existing Home Sales for...

Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.1% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.1% in November

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The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the median Consum...

Review: Ten Economic Questions for 2025

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At the end of each year, I post  Ten Economic Questions for the following year (2025) . I followed up with a brief post on each question. H...

YoY Measures of Inflation: Services, Goods and Shelter

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SPECIAL NOTE: October prices (data not collected) were averaged between September and November for these graphs. Here are a few measures of ...

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 224,000

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The DOL reported : In the week ending December 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 224,000, a decrease of 13...