From Axios:
Low home turnover rate, charted
Only a small sliver of U.S. homes changed hands through August this year, according to Redfin.
Why it matters: This is one more stunning stat that shows just how stagnant the real estate market has been.
The big picture: High home prices, mortgage rates and lack of inventory have made homebuying near impossible. Conditions aren’t appealing to sellers, sitting on sub-6% mortgage rates, either.
Zoom out: U.S. metro areas are on track to permit fewer new housing units than last year, thanks to high borrowing costs, Axios’ Sami Sparber and Kavya Beheraj report.
What we’re watching: Those golden handcuffs may start to fall off if rates drop closer to 5%, experts predict.
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Departing Edinburgh shortly for Germany. Everything is coming together. Got an email from my wife last night that our appointment with the Notar to buy our neighbor‘s house is on 6 December. It will be a busy 2025 for me as I do work on the house.
BREAKING NEWS!
Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
Police said they discovered Payne’s body after emergency services responded to a call from staff at a hotel where the pop star was staying in the city’s trendy Palermo neighborhood.
Shivering and diarrhea symptoms? Don’t mix your anxiety and OCD medications before the election! Mixing SSRIs like citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, and sertraline…..is a bad bad idea. Taking multiple SSRIs together can significantly increase the risk of serotonin syndrome……you will shit yourself to death before Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Bidens economy:
Morgan Stanley traders and bankers joined the rest of their Wall Street rivals in posting better-than-expected revenue, fueling a 32% profit surge for the third quarter and sending the shares up the most in almost four years. Revenue from the trading business rose 13%, the bank said in a statement Wednesday. That followed gains recorded by its biggest rivals as the markets business lifted fortunes across the industry and a rebound in dealmaking fueled higher investment-banking fees.
New housing units: I see it everywhere. Tracts of land plowed and stuffed with as many cardboard pods as possible. If the market reverses some day and the market becomes flooded with sellers, it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.
People’s Republic of Wayne… standard house all around, 595K. 120K down and $4,100 per month. I’d be in jail if I was a 1st time home buyer looking.
https://www.trulia.com/home/55-beechwood-dr-wayne-nj-07470-39789390
Pine’s Lake… love the area. I wish this had more of a yard but I love the appeal of this house. The pics are relaxing to look at.
https://www.trulia.com/home/845-pines-lake-dr-w-wayne-nj-07470-39799819
Fast: I was in Hackensack yesterday evening, tons of new apartments,built, and more to come, including the old Sears, and the YMCA. It certainly looks a lot better.
3b: Main Street in Hackensack has rebounded. Everything is sparkly and new. Any town with a walk-able downtown is remaking itself.
I’d swear, I mean I know, this came up during the debates where Kamala complained about Trump’s tariffs and how they were going to hurt the economy. Just give her a doggie bed and a milk bone and hope she lays down, curls up, and takes a nap.
The ban would cover both hardware and software and would be the toughest protectionist measure yet to defend US automotive against cheap Chinese EVs flooding the market.
Biden’s administration has already imposed 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs and the $7,500 consumer EV subsidy won’t be available to any vehicle with made-in-China components.
Had a kid with one broad, relationship lasted one year. Bet he was paying her a pretty penny to barely see his kid.
Broad 2 was with him in Argentina. Left right before the accident. Said she had something to do, so he is alone, on drugs,in a foreign country, destroying the room before he ends up dead. What kind of “girlfriend” leaves her man like that? It’s speculation, but maybe she was out Monkey Branching and he found out.
I mean, she looks like she was built by Local 295 bricklayer union.
Very Stable Genius says:
October 17, 2024 at 7:12 am
BREAKING NEWS!
Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
Ahh technology.
Nick Jonas gets a laser pointer fired at him, guy runs off the stage like he is on fire.
Can’t blame him.
What kind of dolt does this?
mAybE sHe wUz oUt mOnkEy bRaNChIng
I do have so say, I would be more entertained to see the Kamala supporters crying the day after the election than the Trump supporters. Will they bring back the pussy hats? Will the shouting/crying androgynous meme lady make a reappearance?
wILL tHeY bRinG bAck tHe puSsY hAts?
Phoenix
Or maybe he was more erratic and was being manipulative or was gas lighting her? Saw an article how he would contact his ex repeatedly and tell her he was going to die soon.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/17/entertainment/liam-payne-said-im-going-to-die-as-manipulation-tactic-ex-fiancee-maya-henry/
The people that claim tariffs hurt the domestic economy usually run through a particular top of logic that doesn’t add up.
1. Tariffs don’t work if the US applies them
2. Tariffs work if China, Japan, Europe, and Canada apply them to us.
We should be tariffing any imported products that we make, and not tariffing products we don’t. It’s that simple. And if the other countries want to reduce their existing tariffs, we can reciprocate. This one way street on trade is ridiculous.
Jonas brothers found pictures of his British wife getting drunk with a bunch of dudes in the uk while he was touring in the us
Phoenix says:
October 17, 2024 at 10:01 am
Had a kid with one broad, relationship lasted one year. Bet he was paying her a pretty penny to barely see his kid.
Broad 2 was with him in Argentina. Left right before the accident. Said she had something to do, so he is alone, on drugs,in a foreign country, destroying the room before he ends up dead. What kind of “girlfriend” leaves her man like that? It’s speculation, but maybe she was out Monkey Branching and he found out.
I mean, she looks like she was built by Local 295 bricklayer union.
Very Stable Genius says:
October 17, 2024 at 7:12 am
BREAKING NEWS!
Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
Tarrifs nah they don’t work right?
European Union voted earlier this month to increase import duties on China-made electric vehicles to 45%.
Is it perfect no? But it will force the consumer to actually consider the locally made electric car over a cheaper import that was made well not always humanely and green…
I guess this guy can predict the future.
Hold my beer says:
October 17, 2024 at 10:23 am
Phoenix
Or maybe he was more erratic and was being manipulative or was gas lighting her? Saw an article how he would contact his ex repeatedly and tell her he was going to die soon.
“force the consumer”
Yeah, force the consumer to pay more. Take away choice, take away freedom.
So if you are in America and your cars are overpriced thanks to CEO’s making a fortune, you either buy a garbage car overpriced from America or pay a government tax (where does that go, Ukraine) to buy the car you want.
Doesn’t help the middle class. What does is American corporations stepping up their game to be actually able to compete.
One of the nurses I work with just got a beautiful huge diamond from her man.
I asked her, how many children slaving in the mine did it take to get that for you?
The look I got was priceless.
Yep, radicalized rightwingers against freedom.
Maga collectivists against letting market fight it out.
Build a better car if you want to compete against foreigners!
Phoenix says:
October 17, 2024 at 10:45 am
“force the consumer”
Yeah, force the consumer to pay more. Take away choice, take away freedom.
Ironic that Maga are very Marxist
Phoenix – re: “What does is American corporations stepping up their game to be actually able to compete.”
Elon and Tesla an American company is the leader here in the USA and the World. The world’s best-selling plug-in electric vehicle. China will destroy them and every other electric car maker without the Tariffs.
Ten 409.
I guess the One Direction is down
All of Elon’s money came with government assistance.
Paypal he assisted the government in taxing people for things they already purchased while inserting himself a profit stream.
Tesla, yeah everyone who doesn’t buy one of his cars gets taxed so someone who does buy his cars gets a discount- that is socialism. Take from the poor, give to the rich.
Starlink, that’s another quasi-government business. I’m sure any data sent through it goes directly to the govt at their behest, and i’m sure it is set up for redundancty ot the military.
Why isn’t Musk giving us a 10k Tesla? Same reason you can go to Canada and get your heart medication for 1/3 the price, because your government doesn’t work for you, it works for corporations. Wave the flag driving that crappy azz Ford with it’s wet oil pump drive belt mounted on the rear of the crankshaft. Have fun when that beech breaks.
It should be an interesting election. I worry there will be physical violence between the far Left and the far Right. Why are people so worked up about how other people think and vote. I’m kind of a middle of the road guy, but I do know a bad candidate when I see one! However, to each their own!
11:06 good looks access to money… drug habit. Never mix with upper floors, balconies, and bad moods in hotels.
No company has figured out how to make a quality 20k ev let alone a $10k one.
Maybe if you’re ok with China level safety standards, but you’d blame “greedy companies” for every death.
re: “Why isn’t Musk giving us a $10k Tesla”
Elon might be giving us something better! Less cars on the road. You don’t need to own a car anymore just pick up your phone and order a Tesla RoboTaxi. It will drive you anywhere even across the country. No long term interest costs for a loan, no insurance, no charging, no maintenance.
New hardware and Tesla AI4 will drive this development with a new $10 billion dollar supercomputer.
https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2034/tesla-to-build-water-cooled-supercomputer-cluster-at-giga-texas
All the money in the world, he was focused on the one he wanted poor guy probably didn’t feel loved with all the P around him, he knew they were there for his money, his fame, to be on his insta, to extort him after having his child.
Lack of hope sent him over the edge.
Corporate welfare
Farmers welfare
Boomers welfare
Bankers welfare
Maga is ok with welfare for everyone except Black people or college students.
Phoenix says:
October 17, 2024 at 11:08 am
All of Elon’s money came with government assistance
You don’t need to own a car anymore. Elon
You don’t need to own a house anymore: Kushner
You don’t need to think anymore: Chat Gpt
You don’t need a wife anymore: Only Fans.
You don’t need to buy a mouse anymore: Logitech.
You don’t need to own heated seats anymore: BMW
Don’t worry, we got you. Just sit back, you don’t need to know how to drive, Elon has you covered. No skills required. Robots will think for you.
Hehe.
It’s sort of strange and ironic but O’Biden in his current state is more qualified and more adapt to be president than Cumella. She outed herself in multiple ways and demonstrated how unqualified she truly is in the manner the dems positioned her. She’s arrogant, combative, uninformed, resentful, diminished, lacks depth, polish, charisma and leadership. She brings political void to a new level. If she gets elected then we deserve every ill that befalls us.
Phoenix – “how many children slaving in the mine.”
Nah Russian diamonds are mined by men in Sibera….
More like in the polishing sweat shops. 90% of the world’s diamonds are polished in the city of Surat in Gujarat India. The Jains (Jain community) started going to Belgium deacades ago to understand the diamond market and brought the trade back. There might be some children there but a small amount compared to perhaps clothing sweat shops….
And if you elect Trump, you get a cross in every classroom.
Even if true, that wouldn’t have had the same effect on my target that day.
Juice Box says:
October 17, 2024 at 11:47 am
Phoenix – “how many children slaving in the mine.”
Nah Russian diamonds are mined by men in Sibera….
Maybe replace the stars on our flag with little crosses?
https://www.amazon.com/magFlags-Landscape-14-5sqft-85x160cm-35x60inch/dp/B00G7N3YTS
Oh look, it’s made in Germany. What a surprise.
Libturd says:
October 17, 2024 at 11:49 am
And if you elect Trump, you get a cross in every classroom.
There is a tune that goes along with this:
Jesus loves the little children, just ask the preists how much they do.
Priests aint much different than P. Diddy.
She’s arrogant, combative, uninformed, resentful, diminished, lacks depth, polish, charisma and leadership.
You sure you’re talking about Harris here?
See the problem with Trump is that he is a known quantity already.
Zero.
Hilary Clinton is 80 times more qualified than that empty twot. Kumelly is insufferable and epically unremarkable. Trump, for all his rhetoric and blather, owns businesses, owned a football team, capital ventures, 16 golf courses, multiple hotels globally, sales and marketing ventures, media conglomerates, real estate, etc. That woman has accomplished nothing. Trump has a resume as a business executive and president and the state of our nation was way better off than the present. She creates nothing more than negativity and duck noises. And that closet homo running as her VP is fooling nobody.
Imagine your fathers and grandfathers returning from the afterlife only to see their party who were once blue-collar tough guys filled with binary mental cases using pronouns as identifiers? I can’t measure the level of vicarious embarrassment I feel for the guys that fought and built this country only to be replaced by s0cial retards pushing clown level ideology. How dastardly humiliating.
Trump was born on third and somehow isn’t even on first now. His record of busisnesses all end in bankruptcy. He is a gauche egoist and loves people to kiss his ring and ass.
Again, Kamala is probably not going to change the world. But there is a good chance Trump is going to wreck it.
And there you have it.
Shouldn’t P Diddy be renamed P. Diddler?
P stand for puntang, naturally.
“What happened Wednesday night to Kamala Harris on Fox News may have been the equivalent to what happened to President Joe Biden at that infamous debate in June — irreparably exposed her as unacceptable to voters.
In what was widely seen as a Hail Mary move by Kamala’s campaign, the vice president agreed to an extended interview on Fox News, one of the exceedingly few national TV interviews she’s done since she was anointed the Democrat Party’s post-Biden nominee. Remarkably, she offered nothing new in terms of her weak, often confusing answers to obvious questions, but she did finally face probing lines of inquiry and necessary follow-up when time after time she attempted to change the subject from her performance in the White House to attacks on Donald Trump.
The entire interview was tense, an obvious effort by “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier to wring direct answers out of Kamala on questions that for months she has responded to with professions of her “middle-class family,” and her delight in the “ambitions,” “dreams” and “aspirations” of Americans. She was visibly upset and exasperated by the countless interruptions and redirections, but only because until then she had faced none.
The most plain and self-evident questions a person would have for Kamala are why she’s campaigning as though she’s not currently in the White House; how her administration would be recognizably different from the one in which she serves right now; and when did she decide to take the exact opposite position on several major policy issues from what she held in the very recent past?
Baier asked them all and Kamala each and every time changed the subject to Trump. To his immense credit, Baier put in an exhaustive effort to keep her in focus, to which Kamala grew visibly frustrated. You could see it in her body language and hear it in her voice that she was at a loss for words because she has no answers that, if she were honest, wouldn’t immediately disqualify her from the campaign.
It was genuinely difficult to watch, and not because it was contentious but because you almost had to feel sorry for her. It was a sense of pity as was the same for Biden during that debate. There was nothing unusual or unfair about the event that revealed the president to be a decrepit and impaired senior citizen. It was simply the moment nobody could deny the obvious any longer.
That’s probably what just happened to Kamala. There’s no longer any denying that she’s a mindless, superficial candidate who in that interview instilled no confidence that she has the vision or aptitude to lead the world’s strongest military and biggest economy.”
11:33 I agree.
It’s tough out there sometimes. Whoever wins in Nov.
what will be will be. Bunker building might see a huge uptick either way.
Chi,
Is this a good time for someone in the top tax bracket to buy muni bonds?
5.5% tax equivalent yields for about 7 year durations.
Lib – “somehow isn’t even on first now”.
Look dude….facts are still facts…
Even the worst estimates say he is a still a Billionaire. That puts him above 99.99% percent of American households.
Plenty of people still flock to his brand, his golf courses and hotels have no shortage of bookings.
1:58 I believe you! But why are we allowing him to run roughshod over convention? Are we okay with his burn it all down mentality, his narcissism and lies?
He received approximately 400 million from his dad about thirty years ago. The fact he is barely worth a billion speaks volumes of his business acumen. I would easily have turned that 400 million into 2 billion without tying ot up in real estate with all of those pseky carrying costs. But what do I know? I was given zero and somehow now have millions. And I didn’t cheat on my taxes like he did and still does.
https://apnews.com/article/0452d29cd2564eaf97605ab90acc3a67
Just imagine if Kamala did this!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/video/trump-dancing-pennsylvania-ldn-digvid
The double standard is absolutely incredible. But again, Trump can do no wrong.
I just washed the first five minutes of that interview. Bret would interrupt her every single time she tried to answer. It was not an interview whatsoever. It was Bret stating the MAGA talking points and then not letting Kamala refute them. Watch it yourself. Again, MAGA makes up complete bullshit and should never ever be taken at their word. Much like the Nazis.
I must add this. Have you seen the recent earnings by United Airlines or JPM? Trump is completely wrong about it. Even the market is shifting into earnings growth mode and is being much less hypothetically AI driven. So much so, at the first pullback, if there ever is one, I’m throwing half of my 50% that is sitting on the sidelines earning a safe 5%, back in based on what I’m witnessing both anecdotally as well as what I see in the financial pages. And you can thank the immigrants for it.
There’s a Dutch chip manufacturing related company. Recently, they threatened to move out of their country due to recent immigration limits that their MAGA like government has put in place. ASML is not progressive. They need fucking workers. Workers that will immediatelly give more than they’ll take. In the end, the Netherlands ended up giving ASML a huge tax break to stay. Hell of a solution. It’s all bullshit and MAGA is completely duped. Trump is not your savior. He’s a grifter. Now go buy a watch for your newborn King. Maybe he’ll huh the flag again for you.
I was given zero and somehow now have millions.
but you were never president. Hehe
but you were never president.
Oh, if I was President. For starters, there’d be pot in every pot. Second, I would immediatelly cut the size of government by 50%. If you couldn’t still do your job, I would find someone who would. Third, I would tax all religions the same as businesses, as that is what they are. Fourth, immediate term limits of one cycle. That’s it. Fourth, immediatelly end PACs and make lobbying illegal. I could go on all day.
Fast
Cut her some slack. She’s busy saving democracy.
PS. When we get rounded up and put in reeducation camps I do not want to be Pumps cellmate.
Lib – Sure he got money when his old man died in 1999 and later his mother died in 2000. His old man lent him money perhaps in the Mid-90s when he went bankrupt. Who knows maybe he was still on some kind of allowance too. Rich people can be very weird. Was he not entitled to his inheritance? Was there no inheritance tax paid (Yes they did some trusts and possibly illegal tax dodges.)
So what he still reported $635 million in income from real estate, hotels, resorts and golf properties during 2023.
I still don’t care for him..I don’t care for VP Harris either.
I want another choice and probably so do the other majority of voters who detest the trainwrecks both the Democrats and Republicans have become.
re: “cellmate”
Did someone say Beetlejuice? Please don’t.
Libturd,
Maybe you’d be ok voting Chase Oliver as a protest vote. Made his first Libertarian party contact at a pride parade, says he’d cut the Pentagon budget 50% but doesn’t promise that for the overall budget. He’s one of the left-wing Libertarians that you might like better than I do.
https://reason.com/2024/10/10/chase-oliver-wants-your-vote/
3:22 he cheated his siblings out of their inheritance.
Juice.
Yes, the Dems should have done a lot better than Kamala. Heck, I forgot that she even was chosen as VP when they trotted her out as the Biden replacement. Though in the lesser of two evils, I will gladly take a puppet controlled by the party masters over Trump. And I HATE THE ESTABLISHMENT! But the Republicans could have done a whole lot better than MAGA and especially MAGA with Trump on top.
It’s an easy choice this time around. Not an enthralling one. But easy one none the less. This time around, I will not be voting for my most popular choice, NOTA. The message needs to be sent to MAGA that ignoring lies and pinning the blame on those not responsible and selfishly pushing your religion and hatred on others is unAmerican, unpatriotic and unkind. Yeah Kamala is boring. But Fuck Trump. Can’t wait to see him go broke defending his crimes.
And yes, I clearly have TDS. And so should every American for the love of our country.
Lib: I think if you watched the interview with an open mind, you would agree that Fast was not all that wrong in his analysis of Harris ‘s performance last night. And yes, Baier e did interrupt her, and he was right to. He asked a question, and she would not answer, deflect, it or blame Trump. He did what other interviewers have failed to do with Harris, This was not a soft interview and it should not have been. Baier would ask a direct question, and she immediately resorted to her BS nonsense answers.
I recorded it, and watched it this morning. Baier says he did everything he could to try and keep her on point, and answer the questions; she did not like that, and grew visibly angry. I think the old Lib would have recognized that. The fact is Trump is awful, and Harris is awful, she is just not as obnoxious and nasty as Trump.
But, it is clear she is not capable or qualified to be President.
The Republicans should be ashamed of picking Trump again, Biden should apologize to the American people for selfishly insisting that he run for a second term, a when it was clear he was in mental decline, And he knew and White House insiders let it be known not too long ago, that Harris was not Presidential material, it was true then, and true now, and even more so.
As someone said here the other day, vote for whoever you want, or don’t vote at all, but this attempt by some to portray Harris as qualified and capable of being a good President is pure nonsense.
In fairness to Biden, perhaps this is what he ran for a second term, he hoped he could squeak through another term to avoid having Harris step in if he decided earlier to drop out, rather than being forced out by Obama, Pelosi, and George Clooney.
Who is Harris? What does she stand for? What are your policies, and why have they changed? What does my values have not changed mean? We still don’t know after last night.
Libturd says:
October 17, 2024 at 4:29 pm
“And yes, I clearly have TDS”
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Best of luck in your long, difficult journey back to sanity.
Libturd says:
October 17, 2024 at 4:17 pm
“the Dems should have done a lot better than Kamala”
Such as? Not sure why you guys can’t admit that there is no ‘better’ in the Dem party; it’s literally full of incompetent, unqualified, lazy, radical weirdos. Who would be better — Bill Deblasio, AOC, Gavin Gruesome, Maxine Waters, Pencil Neck Schiff???
At this point it’s hard to fathom how any white male (who identifies as a white male) can support the wacko Dem party where white males have been so marginalized that the only position they can aspire to is a token VP.
VP Harris skipped the Al Smith dinner tonight.
Can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. She will get roasted anyway.
Consistently voting for the lesser of two evils is how someone like Harris is the nominee. Like the choice or not, at least the Republican voters actually chose their candidates. I’d love to vote for a dem, if only they wouldn’t rig the primary process to run these low IQ hacks.
“it’s hard to fathom how any white male ”
and there is the core of your issues, the GOP is full of angry ones, who are willing to tear the country apart out of fear.
Harris sent a video to the Al Smith dinner.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1847090086585778244
10:04 it’s a desperate cry. A last gasp.
Amazing how many men resent women.
Looks like Donnie is losing the little Latino support he ever had. The body language on the audience is telling. Also the guy starts off as I used to be a Republican and not I used to be a supporter.
https://x.com/NYinLA2121/status/1846755095993856392
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
NEW
Canadian PM Trudeau said under oath that Russia is funding Tucker Carlson & Jordan Peterson
“We’ve recently seen that RT is funding bloggers…such as Jordan Peterson…Tucker Carlson…to amplify messages that are destabilizing democracies”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1847025144352411881