NYTIMES (Patrick McGeehan) - What Will It Take to Fix New York’s Housing Shortage?
A draft report from the city estimates that 700,000 new units would need to be built over the next decade to meet the need for homes.
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Home sellers are drawing from a dwindlingly pool of buyers, new data shows
Nearly 80% of major cities in the U.S. are now buyer's markets, defined as a market where the number of sellers is more than 10% higher than the number of buyers.
AMERICANTHINKER - Groceries Illustrate That Communists Can’t Do Math
American Thinker By Luis Gonzalez We have affordable bananas in America today because capitalists and free marketers can do math and have refined their grocery math for centuries.
AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - Employers are hiring less but paying more
Private employment data suggests that the labor market might be tighter than the headline hiring numbers alone suggest, with worker pay accelerating alongside lackluster jobs growth. Why it matters: Employers are pulling back on hiring as they navigate an uncertain economic outlook, but supply constraints continue to limit the pool of available workers in some industries. - That's helping speed up pay growth — a boon for workers in industries like construction and health care, where employers are still competing for scarce labor. - But the labor market is becoming increasingly uneven: While employers in some sectors are paying up to attract workers, others are more cautious about hiring as they contend with geopolitical uncertainty,…
BITCHUTE - Does Rent Control ACTUALLY Work? Obama’s Chief Economist Breaks it Down | The Brief
What happens when Obama's chief economist sits down with PragerU — and agrees on almost everything? In this episode of The Brief, host Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Professor Jason Furman — Harvard economist, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and President Obama's chief economist — for a conversation that will surprise viewers on both sides of the aisle. Furman doesn't pull punches. On rent control, he calls it "about as disgraced as any economic policy in the toolkit" — a policy that started as a World War II emergency measure in 1942, was extended 16 years after the war ended, and has now been running for 80 years. He explains precisely why NYC Mayor Mamdani's rent freeze on one million apartments will hurt…
JUSTTHENEWS (Steven Richards) - An ‘October surprise’ from China could spike oil prices ahead of midterm election for Trump
Supply and demand: Beijing has decreased importing oil since the Iran war began, keeping oil prices lower than they otherwise would have been. Analysts say China's restraint could soon end, presenting President Trump with challenging increases in gas prices ahead of the midterms.
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Above-Average Natural Gas Stocks Now Promising Lower Winter Bills
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Illegal Immigration Demand Shock: Why Your Rent Skyrocketed Under Biden
NEWSCATS (MeighTimbol) - Oil Prices Fall as OPEC+ Approves Another Output Increase Amid Recovering Global Supply
OPEC logo is seen in this illustration taken June 25, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Published July 6, 2026 LONDON — Global oil prices declined Monday after OPEC+ agreed to increase crude oil production targets once again, [...]
NPR (Stephan Bisaha) - Is it a renter's market? It depends on where you live
About 40% of rentals on Zillow offer move-in deals, like a month of free rent, thanks to a construction boom that created an apartment surplus in some parts of the United States.