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Good Morning, World!

☕️ Happy Monday!  We are 2 Days from St. Patrick’s Day & 20 Days from Easter

📈 U.S. stock futures edged up and European indexes advanced after the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished its best week in months to close at a record. (Wall Street Journal)

☀️ Sunrise Stories:

  • President Joe Biden is planning the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to help pay for the long-term economic program designed as a follow-up to his pandemic-relief bill (Bloomberg)

  • China’s economic activity surged to start year (MarketWatch)

  • The 2021 March Madness bracket Is set—unless Covid-19 steps in (Wall Street Journal)

March 15, 2021, 5:33 amby Tyler Cralle
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Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend

See ya on Monday!

March 12, 2021, 6:51 pmby Tyler Cralle
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Average Sales Price Now Above Sticker

For the first time on record the typical home has sold above its list price according to Redfin

– The median home-sale price increased 17% year over year to $328,350.

– Asking prices of newly listed homes increased 10% year over year to hit a new all-time high of $349,97.

Pending home sales were up 19% and active listing fell 41% which helps explain why the average sale-to-list price ratio increased to 99.8% and during the 7-day period ending March 7, the ratio shot up to 100.1%.   So if you are trying to win a house an offer of sticker price probably won’t cut it right now.

 

March 12, 2021, 2:20 pmby Tyler Cralle
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So Much For The Work From Home Revolution

So the biggest argument we have heard during this pandemic is that working from home is here to stay.  While there is little doubt that working from home will be much more common than it was, new data indicates we aren’t ready for the work from home revolution just yet.

Masayuki Morikawa over at VoxEU & CEPR analyzes data out of japan on telework and it is not very good.

– Productivity: ” Using data from a survey of individuals in Japan, in Morikawa (2020) I show that the productivity of employees adopting the home working arrangement during the Covid-19 pandemic is, on average, 30–40% lower than that in the office.”

– Not 100% just yet: Even during the pandemic we didn’t see full adoption of telework.  In fact, Morikawa found that “teleworkers have spent more than 70% of their work hours at home during the pandemic.”

– Problems:  According to employee surveys the two biggest issues they had with telework were 1) “Some tasks cannot be conducted at home although these are not required by the rules and regulations (76.1%)” and 2) “Poor telecommunication environment at home relative to the workplace (60.8%)”

Read More @ VoxEU.org

COVID-19 has obviously hastened the pace of telework technology, but it’s clear we have not reached a point where most people can work from home full-time.  30-40% reductions in productivity won’t be acceptable for most companies.  Even if they are saving money from a reduction in the workspace, those types of productivity losses won’t justify it.  COVID has given us a blueprint on how telework could be possible.  If workers truly want the option going forward they need to go beyond figuring out how to make it work.  They need to figure out how to make it profitable.

March 12, 2021, 10:14 amby Tyler Cralle
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It’s Friday

It’s Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday, Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend…

March 12, 2021, 7:33 amby Tyler Cralle
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Good Morning, World!

☕️ Happy Friday! We are 5 Days from St. Patrick’s Day & 23 Days from Easter

📉 U.S. stock futures pulled back this morning, led lower by the technology sector, signaling that the major indexes will retreat a day after notching fresh records. (Wall Street Journal)

☀️ Sunrise Stories:

– President Biden directed states to ensure that all adults are eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 (Washington Post)

– North American lumber prices will extend gains this year as homebuilding and renovations cause demand for wood to outstrip production (Bloomberg)

– The net worth of U.S. households finished 2020 at the highest level on record (Wall Street Journal)

March 12, 2021, 6:47 amby Tyler Cralle
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