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Housing Just Another Miserable Fed Failure

Housing Market Epitomizes Fed's Failure - Click to enlarge

The mainstream media dutifully reported a 2.8% gain in the headline seasonally adjusted number for housing starts. It was just another example of how misleading seasonally adjusted data can be. On a year to year basis, actual total starts are down from 83,300 in March 2013, to 79,100 last month. That’s a drop of 5%. Much of the decline was in the booming multifamily starts which fell by 5,200 units or 18% year over year. Single family did better, increasing by 1,500 units or just under 3%. But it remains at depression like levels.

This chart tells the story at a glance.

Housing Market Epitomizes Fed's Failure - Click to enlarge
Housing Market Epitomizes Fed’s Failure – Click to enlarge

While the Fed has done a great job in stimulating a raging housing price bubble, sales and starts are still bumping along the bottom. This is normal. A return to bubble levels is not in the cards.  The Fed engineered housing inflation has ensured that.

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