- groundbreaking jumped 25%
- seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.32 million units
- highest level since August, 2007
- biggest increase since 1982
- starts increased in all four region of the US
- single-family home building jumped almost 11%
- plummeted an astounding 19,000 to 235,000
- lowest level since November, 1973
- forecast: jobless claims rising to 257,000
- net swing from forecast (+ 3,000) to actual (- 19,000) = 22,000
- when swings are this huge, there is a usually a story -- which is seldom reported
- if reported, it generally reflects the view of the author, not any real analysis
- hard to believe the analysts would be that far off
- four-week average fell 6,500 to 253,500
- consumer prices in US increase for third consecutive month
- inflation moving closer to the Federal Reserve's goal
- CPI climbed 0.4% in October; gained 0.3% in September
- the numbers exclude what most Americans spend most on, in any given week: food and gasoline
- Maine: oldest median age in the nation
- one of only two states where deaths outnumbered births between July, 2014, and July, 2015 (the other state: West Virginia)
- by 2024: Maine could see a net decrease of 28% of people between 35 and 64 -- and a loss of one electoral vote (down to the minimum of 3)
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Monet Painting Sells For Record Amount
Data points from The Wall Street Journal:
- "Grainstack"
- $81.4 million
- expected to sell for $45 million
- seller: "famed" Denver stock picker Tom Marsico bought it fourteen years ago, in 2002, for roughly $12 million
- five collectors bid for it
- 1891 canvas; anonymous bidder over the telephone
- previous Monet record: $80.4 million; "Water Lily Pond," eight years ago
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