Digging for Dirt
The Pandemic Has Been the Economic Equivalent of a Magnitude 9 Earthquake
The longest U.S. economic expansion since the end of the Second World War came to an abrupt end earlier this year as the COVID-19 pandemic essentially shut down the […]
Wells Fargo Securities Economics Group 2020 Annual Economic Outlook
The current economic upswing in the United States, which has been in place since July 2009, is the longest continuous expansion since at least the mid-1850s. Although there is a popular perception […]
Will 2018 Meet Expectations?
By Greg Sitek
The future of the U.S. is shrouded in confusion, hostility, distrust, threats, uncertainty, criticism, discord, disasters, failing infrastructure, and an almost endless list of problems. But even so, we are experiencing a growing economy high […]
Housing starts rose 3.3 percent in November to a 1.297 million-unit pace after a downwardly revised 1.256 million-unit pace in October. Strength in the West and South pushed single-family starts to a decade high.
Residential Building Up in the South […]