What I'm Reading Leading the Pack: Millennials were supposed to be the generation that spurned home ownership. Instead, they now make up over half of all home purchase applications as the group enters prime household formation years. The generation accounted for 67% of first-time home purchase mortgage applications and 37%...
November 12th – Baby Boom?
What I'm Reading Baby Boom? A recent Bank of America research note struck an optimistic tone compared with the poor demographic data in the 2020 Census. The report showed that birth rates are beginning to tick up and leading indicators - such as the sale of pregnancy tests - point...
February 4th – Signs of Life
One Big Thing Today I'm going to focus a major investment sale broker pet peeve: yield fluffing (and yes, I made up that term). For the uninitiated, a fluffer is someone who gets a male porn actor ready to "perform" before the cameras start rolling. I'm not going to explain...