The markets closed broadly up today, but manufactured housing connected tracked equities went broadly down. Among the issues that’s not as discussed as it debatably merits is the impact on robotics on the workforce, and thus on a significant part of the manufactured housing customer base of the future. A …
“Motion – or, more accurately, activity – in and of itself, is not necessarily synonymous with, or equivalent to, real progress, or, in fact, any progress at all…” “…Recent reports emerging from elsewhere within the universe of organizations representing the manufactured housing industry paint a uniformly rosy picture of almost …
The extended forecast for the 2019 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show projects possible snow and bitter cold temperatures, per AccuWeather, as the graphic below from about 5:15 AM ET attests. Weather has long been a factor in attendance at the first trade show of the year. Exhibitors risk millions of dollars …
CNBC and the National Association of Realtors are among the sources that report a drop in resale activity for December of 2018. Here are some significant bullets and pull quotes for factory-built housing professionals to consider. “The latest decline is harder to explain. Perhaps it is the decline in …
Significant Drop in Housing Sales, Splits Experts on Cause-Effect Read More
The stark saga of 85-year old Millie Francis and the theatre involving her pre-HUD Code mobile home has made the page of the ubiquitous Drudge Report since our previous update, linked here. As one of the most trafficked news websites on earth, when the Drudge team links up a topic, …
Oppression enslaves both the oppressor and those who are controlled. The comfortable life of the oppressor may look appealing. But when the full scope of economic realities are properly understood, each loses, though one side obviously lost more. Manufactured housing professionals should embrace Martin Luther King Jr. Day …
His Dream Was Rooted in American Dream, “Free At Last” Read More
Sometimes optics alone create an “Avoidable Ouch.” Just as Cavco Industries stock was starting to creep back up, the question is, how will these new announcements impact the company? On a day when the markets overall rose, Cavco (CVCO) will be our featured report this evening. If you’re new, …
Centralization. Globalization. Immigration. Those three words sum up much of what “the establishment” of both major political parties have actively or passively accepted and/or promoted for decades. Those three words also help explain how Washington, D.C. has become more remote from the people it is supposed to serve. Those …
Certainly, retirees are among those that by homes, as seasoned manufactured housing industry professionals well know. But it is routinely workers that are the present and future measure of the soundness of an economy. So, it’s employment – jobs data – that gets attention from publicly traded companies in their …
Federal Economic Measures, Data at Close of 2018, and Manufactured Housing Read More
The rebranded Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection – formerly the CFPB, now the BCFP – has produced a January 2019 report that contains new data regarding manufactured housing lending. There are over 200 pages. We’ll simplify that for busy readers. MHProNews will hereby provide the entire document here as a …
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has released their Small Business Optimism index for December, 2018. In a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, NFIB said, “The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index remained basically unchanged in December, drifting down 0.4 points to 104.4…Unfilled jobs and …
Eyes on Small Business Optimism Index In December, Update Read More
The new National Association of Manufactured Housing Community Owners (NAMHCO) has launched another proverbial shot across the bow of the establishment Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), that they broke away from last year. While it is too soon to see what the effectiveness of this new trade group will …
“If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.” — John Sherman Sherman was a mover in what today is known as the Sherman antitrust act. The act …
No Kings in America? – John Sherman ‘Speaks’ to Manufactured Housing Read More
Broader markets rose today, as did many of the manufactured housing industry tracked stocks. But among the more talked-about issues by investment watchers and business sites this afternoon are the growing concerns that the partial federal shutdown will have more of an economic impact than was initially thought. That will …
Let’s be clear, the Daily Business News on MHProNews believes in correct terminology and many points that have been shared over the years. That said, this column recently spotlighted an “epic” mobile home commercial. That prior, recent report, is linked via the text/image box below. New Year’s Respect for Those …
Manufactured home equities closed mixed again today, and the broader markets overall took their second closing dip that started on Friday. Ideally and historically – given that there is an affordable housing crisis – manufactured housing stocks should be more durable than they have been in recent years. Why the …
Disney’s theme parks are part of a larger conglomerate. It includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following companies. Put differently, consider Disney as one of those giants that are steadily building their moat, rather akin to Berkshire Hathaway. Our publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach has …
The Future of Retail, Disney, ‘Trailer Trauma,’ and Manufactured Housing Read More
It is no secret that MHProNews believes in applying similar principles of accountability to an association that one should apply to a successful, ethical business. If there was a business manager or company president that year-after-year, failed to deliver, what would happen to such a professional? What happens to …
Go ahead, say it. Naïve, idealistic, rash, foolish, or a crusader who believes that the only way that positive change occurs is by intelligently challenging the status quo. That challenge can and should be honorable, and it can and should be profitable. So, pragmatism and reason are involved. Over the …
What happens with jobs, businesses, stock markets, and the economy clearly have an impact on the nation, of which manufactured housing is a part. For close readers of the Daily Business News evening market report here on MHProNews, there is a notably strong corollary between what the broader markets …
“Playing Politics” – Immigration, Border Battle, and Manufactured Housing Read More
