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- Kermit Baker

With the presidential and congressional elections occurring later this year, many are pondering their impact on the U.S. economy. There are basically ...

The U.S. has a serious housing shortage, particularly for affordable homes. Years of underbuilding have caused both house prices and rents to increase...

Like most sectors of our economy, the construction industry is suffering from a shortage of workers. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that there ar...

It’s hard to overstate the hype we’ve all seen around the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on our economy, particularly over the past ...

Shortages prevent a more significant downturn Since the beginning of 2020, residential rents are up by almost 25 percent nationally while home prices ...

Commercial construction and real estate have undergone significant transformation over the past three years. While construction levels in this sector ...

Construction is one of the most fragmented industries in our economy. Although there are almost eight million construction workers nationally, the ave...

As one wise observer noted, if construction workers from a century ago were dropped on a job site today, they’d mostly feel right at home. This is cer...

We’re barraged with constant bad news about the outlook for the economy — high rates of inflation, rising interest rates, continued problems with the ...

Strong growth in house prices and rapidly rising mortgage rates have taken their toll on the housing market this year. Housing starts have declined mo...