All but two tracked stocks today took the slide down, along with the broader markets. That will be our focus for this evening’s manufactured housing connected stock report. If you’re new, already hooked on our new spotlight feature – or are ready to get the MH professional fever – our …
Almost All Tracked Manufactured Housing Stocks Drop With Broader Markets, MH Stock Updates 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
It is a well-known concern that Clayton Homes, and their affiliated/sister Berkshire Hathaway owned lenders, has been repeatedly accused of “racism” and “predatory lending.” Maxine Waters (CA-D), the new chairperson for the powerful Housing Financial Services Committee (FSC), and 3 of her colleagues are among those who have formally lodged …
Earlier today, the Daily Business News on MHProNews published an article that featured the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a video with his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. His dream was tied into, per King’s own words, the American Dream. The American Dream, properly understood, is at the …
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
Two nights ago, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Office took the unusual step of publishing a denial of a mainstream media report by BuzzFeed News that had the talking heads on TV, radio, and in print astir for 24 hours. Harvard law professor emeritus, Alan Dershowitz – a Democrat …
Wishful Thinking vs Facts, Evidence, Reason, and Manufactured Housing Read More
Once an item hits the mainstream media, or even trade media, it can begin to shape a narrative that may help or harm that operation. In as much as people – potential consumers of manufactured homes – begin or continue to form opinions based upon headlines and news accounts, …
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
At the closing bell, its been another up day on the markets. The bulk of manufactured home industry connected tracked stocks closed up. While there’s plenty of market movers we could touch upon, to mix things up, this evening we take a fascinating look at the “global war on cash” …
Global War On Cash? Plus, Manufactured Housing Equities Updates 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 …
That quoted part of the headline phrase comes from the Prager University video, post further below. But before we get to that, a few manufactured housing industry related thoughts. An “ideological echo chamber” arguably exists inside manufactured housing, and outside of the factory-built housing industry too. The video …
An “Ideological Echo Chamber” – and Manufactured Housing Progress 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
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
Berkshire Hathaway owned Clayton Homes and Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF) are well known, dominating brands in manufactured housing. So, it should be of interest to the industry’s independents, who often have no choice but to deal with the marketplace realities of Clayton and VMF. This Daily Business News …
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 …
