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Today’s markets and stocks snapshot, at the closing bell…
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National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow praised Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday after the left-wing lawmaker urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to keep monetary policy loose because inflation was not an issue, something that President Donald Trump and his administration have been pushing for.
Per left-of-center CNBC, “I know I’m a supply side conservative and so forth, but I want to note in the hearings yesterday with Fed Chairman Jay Powell, it was Ms. AOC who asked him about the Phillips curve,” National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told Fox News on Thursday. “Why is rising growth and low unemployment bad? Why does that cause higher inflation and interest rates? Powell said ‘well, you’re right. That thing hasn’t worked in decades.’”
“I’ve got to give her high marks for that. She got that out of the chairman. By the way, that’s been my position. That’s been the president’s position. Strong growth does not cause higher inflation,” Kudlow said, adding he would like to discuss “supply-side economics” with Ocasio-Cortez in the future.
The Phillips curve is a mechanism that suggested that a lower unemployment rate will lead to stronger inflationary pressures. However, that supposed relationship deteriorated in recent years as inflation remains muted and the U.S. unemployment rate sits at 3.7%, around a 50-year low. Nevertheless, the Phillips curve remained part of the Fed’s policymaking process for decades.
Powell testified in front of the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the testimony, Ocasio-Cortez said economists “are increasingly worried” that the Phillips curve is “no longer describing what is happening in today’s economy.” She then asked Powell, who responded in the affirmative, noting: “We have learned that the economy can sustain much lower unemployment than we thought without troubling levels of inflation.”
“Do you think that could have implications in terms of policy making? That there is perhaps room for increased tolerance of policies that have historically been thought to drive inflation?” Ocasio-Cortez asked Powell. “One of the arguments about minimum wage or other policies that directly target middle-class Americans is that they could drive inflation.”
The signals continue to be that the Fed may initiate a rate cut.
It is obvious that lower rates can lead to increased housing affordability. It can also reduce business costs, or the cost for the federal government of others to borrow. So lower rates have a case to be made for them, based on all of the current dynamics.
But there is another case that won’t likely be addressed until after 2020, and that is the purported value of the Federal Reserve system as it exists today. It was established with the goal of evening out the ups and downs of the U.S. economy. But the great depression, the great recession, and several other economic upheavals have occurred since the Fed system as created. That’s not to point the finger of blame at the Fed for past or current economic challenges. It is to say that the Fed has not achieved its own stated purpose.
When the 2020 election results are over, that will be the time to look at this topic in earnest. In the meantime, there are bigger fish to fry, such as the problematic challenges caused by failures to enforce good laws on the books. Those include, but are not limited to,
· a robust enforcement of antitrust (anti-monopoly) laws,
· the Duty to Serve manufactured housing mandated the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008,
· and the full implementation of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, which includes, but is not limited to, the enhanced preemption provision of the law.
The common thread between those three? These words: “fully implement and enforce good existing laws.”
With those measures put into place, manufactured housing would enjoy a renaissance that many in our industry today would not think possible. Which is all the more curious as to why the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has failed to promote those same three bullets, while the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has strongly pushed for the second and third bullets, and has given a nod to the first bullet in their own way.
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NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services.
NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
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Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers.
LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP all supply manufactured housing.
AMG, CG and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses.
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