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Michael Guckes, Senior Economist
June 13th, 2022
In my recent article about non-dollar metrics, I described how the inflation-adjusted value of unfilled orders, new orders, and inventory are all at record current-day dollar amounts; yet when these readings are converted to 2019 equivalent dollars, we actually see a decrease in inventories, new orders, and unfilled orders.
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Alex Carrick, Chief Economist
June 9th, 2022
I have a simple and straightforward way of rating U.S. major city labor markets. For the 51 metro statistical areas in the country with populations of more than a million, I first rank them according to year-over-year jobs growth, fastest to slowest. Second, I rank them by unemployment rate, lowest (best) to highest (worst).
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Michael Guckes, Senior Economist
June 7th, 2022
In a recent article, Construction Industry Still Facing Supply Chain & Manufacturing Issues, I explained how the dollar value of new orders and unfilled orders have grown at double-digit rates since their pre-pandemic highs. Yet, due to extreme price inflation for construction materials over the same period, these seemingly significant dollar value gains don’t represent an equal size increase in the quantity of materials being ordered.
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Michael Guckes, Senior Economist
June 7th, 2022
The latest data on construction materials and supplies suggest no stop to the supply chain and manufacturing challenges facing the construction industry. Unfilled orders, new orders, and total inventories all reached historic highs in current dollar prices in the latest data reported for April 2022.
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Alex Carrick, Chief Economist
June 3rd, 2022
The angst over whether all the talk about a possible looming recession may be affecting the U.S. jobs market can be set aside, at least temporarily, based on the latest Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. May’s month-to-month change in the U.S. total jobs count was +390,000. That’s a little down from the year-to-date monthly average for 2022 of +490,000, but it’s still strikingly good.
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Alex Carrick, Chief Economist
June 2nd, 2022
The graphic featured below maps ConstructConnect’s type-of-structure categories for construction starts to the Census Bureau’s put-in-place designations, while also showing year-to-date results for both series through April 2022.
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Alex Carrick, Chief Economist
June 2nd, 2022
The importance of retail trade for the overall U.S. economy is readily apparent. Consumer spending always accounts for about 70% of gross domestic product (GDP). In turn, retail activity is usually between 40% and 45% of consumer spending.
By:
Alex Carrick, Chief Economist
May 3rd, 2022
The breakouts in U.S. construction material input costs showed few signs of abating in March.