by Keith Weinhold | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
You might have learned that supply and demand dictate price before you graduated high school. There’s a less-discussed variable within—capacity to pay. Say you and I are crawling through the hot desert, penniless and dying of thirst. We have high demand for a...
by Keith Weinhold | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
CPI inflation came in hotter than mid-July at 9.1% from a year ago. Gasoline, airfare, and food inflation are persistently high. Does your grocery store have a loan officer in the meat department yet? Maybe there’s real demand for beef ground chuck mortgages....
by Keith Weinhold | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
Though it’s not quite America’s favorite spectator sport, the new CPI inflation reading drops next Wednesday. The BLS play-by-play is slower than the NFL’s. But I’ll cover it like Al Michaels did the Super Bowl. Let’s compare the 2004...
by Keith Weinhold | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
In “The Empire Strikes Back”, villainous Darth Vader tells Lando Calrissian: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” Darth wanted to renege on his agreement, taking Princess Leia and Chewbacca captive. He lied,...
by Keith Weinhold | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
The main reason that the real estate market has shifted is decreased home affordability. Demand has waned, but just slightly. The number of days on market demonstrates that housing demand still vastly exceeds supply. How you shift with the market depends on how...
by Keith Weinhold | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
Ever more often, when shoppers walk out of grocery stores with not-so-full shopping carts, they have a look on their face like, “What just happened to me in there?” Soaring inflation is going to be around for a while. Tomorrow, the Fed will almost...
