Friday, October 24, 2014

Bonus Exponential Trend Failure of the Day: New Home Prices vs. Hourly Wages

The following chart shows the median sales price for new houses sold divided by the average hourly earnings of private production and nonsupervisory employees. The result shows the number of hours the average production and nonsupervisory employee would need to work to pay for the median new house with cash.


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The exponential trend in red failed big time, not that many seem to notice or care. So what happened to the missing 1,400 hours of labor in September (in order to stay on the unsustainable exponential trend)? Well...



Seriously. As seen in the chart, didn't we already go through this once? Housing bubble? Hello?

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart
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10 comments:

  1. mabOctober 24, 2014 at 1:20 PM

    in order to stay on the unsustainable exponential trend

    Unsustainable? You keep using that word. What gives? Don't you believe the official propaganda?

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  2. Stagflationary MarkOctober 24, 2014 at 5:55 PM

    mab,

    As I told you, it would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways unsustainable. No one in Guilder knows what we've done, and no one in Florin could have gotten here so fast. Out of curiosity, why do you ask? ;)

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  3. midwesterngirlOctober 24, 2014 at 9:23 PM

    It is rather inconceivable, isn't it?

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  4. Stagflationary MarkOctober 25, 2014 at 1:26 AM

    midwesterngirl,

    I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 25, 2014 at 8:37 AM

    This is a good thing. Prices belong below the blue line. That is where they are sustainable.

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  6. deariemeOctober 25, 2014 at 11:15 AM

    Six years earnings to buy a house isn't bad. Pity about the income tax, though.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 25, 2014 at 12:11 PM

    Do wages include total compensation ? If so I'd like to see
    the chart with benefits stripped out.

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  8. Stagflationary MarkOctober 26, 2014 at 3:37 AM

    Joseph Constable,

    You'd think it would be easier to sell houses if they were cheaper. Of course, if you thought that way then you probably wouldn't be responsible for monetary policy, lol. Sigh.

    Bubbles, bubbles, toil, and trouble!

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  9. Stagflationary MarkOctober 26, 2014 at 3:40 AM

    dearieme,

    Yeah, the income taxes take a bite, as does the cost to maintain the house, the property taxes each year, the insurance, the furniture, the utilities, and so on.

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  10. Stagflationary MarkOctober 26, 2014 at 3:43 AM

    Anonymous,

    I don't believe either benefits or payroll taxes are included.

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