CoStar Economy: GDP Predictions Fall Lower and Lower By Robert Calhoun and Matt Powers (Via:CoStar) March 23, 2020 | 08:13 A.M. “Economic time has stopped, but financial time has not.” – Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama. Economic data has started to trickle in offering insight into what happened during the most […]
How to Spot the Next Market Avalanche
January 06, 2020|Robert Calhoun and Matt Powers (Via: CoStar) CoStar Economy: The Tipping Point Can Be Tough to Predict “As grains pile up, it seems clear that a broad mountain of sand should edge slowly skyward, and yet things obviously cannot continue in this way.” – From “Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen,” by Mark Buchanan Who […]
CoStar Economy: The Ugly Truth Behind Some Good-Looking Consumer Numbers
New Consumer Data Offers Hints of Just How Fragile the Consumer Sector Could Be November 29, 2019|Robert Calhoun and Matt Powers (Via: CoStar) “Retailers mentioned higher costs, which contacts in some Districts attributed to tariffs. Firms’ ability to raise prices to cover higher costs remained limited, though a few Districts noted that companies affected by […]
