While broader markets slid, today was a symbolic throw back on manufactured housing connected tracked stocks. Most of them rose. That’s how it should be for the affordable housing industry. But our featured report tonight is about lifelong Democrat, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. He’s announced his interest in running …
As longtime readers of the Daily Business News on MHProNews evening market reports know, we curate content and input that crosses the left-right divide. We’re pragmatic, as well as idealistic in thinking that the largely artificial barriers that keep manufactured housing from achieving the pledged 500,000 shipments that MHI President …
Bloomberg’s Reality Check for Senator Warren’s and AOC’s Tax Plans, Plus MH Market Updates Read More
In a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) said that they have “provided more than $65 billion in financing to support the multifamily market in 2018 with its Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS®) program. Fannie Mae continued to serve as a key source of liquidity by …
Fannie Mae Reports Billions in Manufactured Home Community Deals, Details Others Lack Read More
On a day when most manufactured housing tracked stocks rose, the Daily Business News on MHProNews will take a look at Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” which will go beyond not just taxing incomes, but will also tax someone’s assets. Welcome to the 2020 race. …
Not Just Income Tax, Warren Pitches Wealth Tax On Assets, Plus MH Market Updates Read More
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 …
Facts are what they are and should not be over or under stated. For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-D) is a formidable political figure, a potent fund raise, and the most powerful elected female office holder in the U.S. today. All those points about Speaker Pelosi are …
Will Current Political Currents Lead to a Top 70 Percent U.S. Tax Rate in 2021? Read More
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
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
There is no incentive for either side to backdown in the shutdown struggle, said Charles Lane, opinion writer for the left-of-center Washington Post. Both sides are dug in, and are playing to their respective bases. So, the longest shutdown on record continues, and notably, the stock markets have in recent …
White House Thanks CNN’s Acosta, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates Read More
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
“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 …
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 …
The markets closed down modestly today, the first dip in a week. Manufactured home connected tracked stocks closed mixed. Our focus this evening will be two firms that already have enormous economic influence, Amazon and Apple – both of which have their own initiatives involving factory building. While the Daily …
Imagine a system methodology or modus operandi (M.O.) that win, lose, or a even a so-so outcome was still rewarded. Hold that thought for later. Next, let’s turn to the Manufactured Housing Institute’s latest ‘news’ update to their members. Using the ‘wheat and chaff’ approach to analysis, MHI provided two …
Useful Manufactured Housing Institute Provided Info, MHI M.O. Revealed Read More
Being the world’s richest man, at least for now, doesn’t mean that every decision you make is a smart. On the 5th day running for rising markets, which are now out of correction territory and up 10 percent since their lows last year, we’ll look at Bezos, those risky and …
On the fourth day in a row that markets rose, and most manufactured housing industry tracked stocks rose as well, we will look at reports on data that may help explain why markets dropped in December, 2018. That will be this evening’s featured focus. If you’re new, already hooked …
Why Did Stocks Tank in December? Plus Manufactured Home Stock Market Updates Read More
Markets closed up again today, the first 3 consecutive days of increases on the Dow since November, 2018. In the mix of noteworthy reports this evening for manufactured housing investors and professionals in this item, that even with the trade battle, Chinese are still the #1 foreign buyers of U.S. …
Chinese Buyers Compete With U.S. Buyers for American Housing, Plus MH Markets Updates Read More
Almost every tracked stock in MHVille rose today, as our Bloomberg ticker further below reflects. CNBC and Fox Business both report that China’s economic and market slides are beginning to put pressure on their leadership to ‘make a deal’ with the Trump Administration over trade. On a day when the …
