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Housing Starts and the Unemployment Rate

Calculated Risk... | Fri, 11/13/2009 - 3:31pm | construction, economic indicators, employment rates, housing development, housing leads, housing sectors, new home sales, Real Estate, unemployment rates |  13 comments

This is an update to an earlier post . As I've noted for some time, housing leads the economy and is the best leading indicator for the economy - both into and out of recessions. Employment lags the economy, and the following graph shows the relationship between starts and unemployment. ... Rea ... Read more

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Construction Employment as Percent of Total Employment

Calculated Risk... | Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:15pm | construction, national employment figures |  2 comments

In the previous post, I excerpted from my post in 2005 arguing that the areas with the most real estate related employment would suffer the most in the then coming housing bust. That post included a graph through most of 2005. Here is an update to that graph using the current data from the BLS ... Read more