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It is Say thirty 6 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: on Wall Street Him Michael McKee along with Tom Keen. 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: Our economic indicators are brought to you by Commonwealth Financial Network. 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: When it's time to change the conversation, talk with the 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 1: broker dealer r I A that's ready to listen call 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: eight six six four six two three eight or visit 11 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: Commonwealth dot com to learn more. Here's Vinnie deal Judas 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: with the UH Import Price Index, Yes, Michael. The first 13 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: of three government inflation reports this week. The Labor Department 14 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: says the import price index rose point two percent in March. 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,639 Speaker 1: That's the first increase since June. The increase less than forecast. 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: What upen? Fuel costs up, food costs down again a 17 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: point two percent month over month increase. You over year 18 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: down though, down six point two percent, illustrating the conundrum 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: faced by the Federal Reserve regarding inflation earlier n F 20 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: I be small Business Optimism Index A fellon March to 21 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: two point six at the Blue Bark first work as 22 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: company del GEDI let's go back to New York. Of 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: anything so much, Mike. Um, I'm taken back by something 24 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: I normally don't look at, which is import prices. That's 25 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: something I mean, there's there the revisions. That's just something 26 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: that's just the stuff is cheaper. Well, do I understand 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: oils in there? Yeah? I mean oil is a major 28 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: driver of that. But of course the big question in 29 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: this month numbers seems to be food. Uh, food prices falling, 30 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: you know, and then you ask, is that a bad thing? 31 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: I mean it's a bad thing maybe for producers. Um. 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: Looking at a an interesting table here, March airfares to 33 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: the US fell six point three from a year ago. Uh. 34 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: Import passenger fairs down, um, and export passenger fairs up. 35 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: So costume more to leave the country. That maybe a 36 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: function of the stronger dollar. I mean, we could have 37 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: one way tickets for children. Don't you wish? Save us 38 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: unreal estate? Well, let's let's let's let's talk about the 39 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 1: the economy and talk about housings role in that with 40 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 1: Doug Duncan, he is uh senior vice president, Chief Economists, 41 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: Dad Fanny May Uh, Doug, we're all watching for signs 42 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: of inflation. I mean you live with it in housing 43 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: because prices generally go up, but in general, Uh, inflation, Well, well, 44 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: how would you characterize it? Is it starting to come? 45 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: Or is have we gotten a head fake? I moved 46 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: up a little bit, and the owners of owners equivalent 47 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: rent was a conturbator to that. Part of that is 48 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: a function that there's no supply at the low price plant, 49 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: either in owned properties or rented properties. So I would 50 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: expect to see some continued pressure on that component of 51 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: the inflation index. The addition of all these jobs is 52 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: pushing the demand curve, and it's moving faster than supply. 53 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: Owners equivalent rent, of course, is away. The Commerce Department 54 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: Labor department rather calculates home prices in the CPI what 55 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: it would cost to rent your house. Um, what is 56 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: the trend with house prices? Uh, They're still moving on strongly. Uh. 57 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: We anticipate about another five percent, are a little more 58 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: than five percent nomenal this year there will be the 59 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: fourth consecutive year in which they've risen around that much, 60 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: and that's a lot faster than real household incomes are increasing. 61 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: That we are a team that's year for for the 62 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 1: market and housing is housing affordability constraints as the expansion 63 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: matures are trying point. This is now the fourth longest 64 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: expansion since Weller two. If you look at our survey consumers, 65 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: they don't feel that the share of thinking that the 66 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: economy is going wrong tracks actually increasing. But both rents, 67 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: particularly in the lower quality apartments see grain apartments uh, 68 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: and prices of the lower price homes are appreciating faster 69 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: than our higher prices are higher rents. Hey, you look, 70 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: dug where we are at the top line of every 71 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: discussion our unit dynamic dynamics and east dynamics. I believe 72 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: you heard. I heard you say. The price dynamics are 73 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the oddity of no supply explained explained to 74 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: me in the quote unquote of a normal spring season. 75 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: What you anticipate will be the mood as people go 76 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: out and look for houses. I can't get a handle 77 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, it is. It is interesting. Our our 78 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: release on our home purchase sentiment index has flattened and 79 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: actually come down a little bit in the first quarter. 80 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: Our interpretation that is that people have looked at the 81 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: last two quarters of growth, which in real terms have 82 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: averaged one and a quarter percent annualized. Uh. They're kind 83 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: of looking at that and saying, I don't really like 84 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: the direction that's taking. So our our index of home 85 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: purchase sentiment, which is a kind of a twelve month 86 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: forward look, have actually flattened out. Um, that's Charlie consists. 87 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: Whether our forecasts were thinking about three increase this year 88 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: in total sales, whereas last year total sales are up 89 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: about seven. Well, let's come back with Dug Duncan. He's 90 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: the chief economist at Fanny May. Um, what are we 91 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: gonna do to get more houses on the market. I 92 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: guess raise prices, right, I think that's part of it. 93 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: But I look at it with the phrase that I 94 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. I believe it was with Jeff Curry. Every 95 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: asset class, including housing, which is basically tangible asset, difficult 96 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: to move compared to markets. Everybody has a great distortion, 97 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: and there's a great distortion to Doug Duncan's world. We'll 98 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,239 Speaker 1: come back and talk to him about the distortive features 99 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: that are out there. I do want to talk to 100 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: him about UM the lender of of of only resort, 101 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: Fannie and Freddie as well. Futures up seven earlier, up 102 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: six right now. A turn to the market, but with 103 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: a constructive feel to it, without question. The headline two 104 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: hours ago strong euro uh It's come back fourteen one 105 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: zero two on euro the yen one O eight twenty 106 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: nine oil forty dollars seventy five cents the barrel. This 107 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: hour of surveillance brought you by Monk Kisco Volvo. Visit 108 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: mont Kisco Volvo dot com. Here's like a bar Mike Tom, 109 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: thank you very much. 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Before 134 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 1: the second inning ended, Marlin scored seven times, beat the 135 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: Mets ten to three, leaving matss e r a near 136 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: thirty eight and leaving the Mets with three straight home 137 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: losses by a combined sixteen to five couple of Becks Mets, 138 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 1: John Niece's first win from Pittsburgh seven four at Detroit 139 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: and Daniel Murphy to run homer in Washington six four 140 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: win over Atlanta. Murphy's back in four seventy one with 141 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: seven r bids comes in their home opener. Didn't get 142 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: a hit until the seventh in Ain't still beat Cincinnati 143 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: five three on Addison Russell's three one shot in the eighth. 144 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: The Orioles are six and oh Chris Davis three run 145 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: homer ninth inning, the spoiler of the Red Sox home 146 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: opener nine to seven. The net sixty loss to Washington 147 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: on eleven, Wizards were in front twenty to nothing and 148 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: then actually fell behind before prevailing. Oklahoma City beat the 149 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: Lakers by thirty three, Russell Westbrook triple double by halftime. 150 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant's last game is tomorrow night. Dallas won the 151 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: Clinton's playoffs spot. Cleveland won to clinch the one seed 152 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: in the East Stanley Cup playoffs beginning tomorrow night. For 153 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: the Rangers, they'll be without captain Ryan mcdonnah at least 154 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: for the opener at Pittsburgh due to his hand injury. 155 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: NFL drafted a little over two weeks. Could the Jets 156 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: take a quarterback. They're bringing cows Jared Goffin for a 157 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: visit this week. The Jets picked twenty may need to 158 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: trade up if they want to get Bob. NBC Sports Update. 159 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: I'm John jon Thanks so much wellster Journal today with 160 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: a terrific article about something might I've seen I think 161 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: no less than three articles in the last six weeks 162 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: on this new thing in a hockey and for those 163 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: with the global audience, we will explain. It used to 164 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: be when the puck was shot at the goal, you 165 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: got out of the way and let the goalie make 166 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: the safe. Now these guys, allah, Ryan McDonough the New 167 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: York Rangers are trying to block everything in sight. There's 168 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: a price to that. 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The yield 193 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: one point seven five percent yelled on the two year 194 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: point seven one percent no I'm x screwed oil up 195 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: one point one percent, or forty four cents to forty 196 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: dollars seventy nine cents of barrel. Comex's gold is a 197 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: four tenths per center five dollars forty cents at twelve 198 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: sixty three twenty announced the euro a dollar thirteen ninety nine. 199 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: The EN one oh eight point to five. US small 200 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: business optimism declining in March, according to the National Federation 201 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: of Independent Business. The organization's monthly Small Business Optimism Index 202 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 1: felt the ninety two point six last month, compared to 203 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: a nainety two point nine in February. Import prices in 204 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: the US increased in March for the first time since 205 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: June twenty fifteen, adding two tenths per cent compared to 206 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: the month before. Economists were looking for an increase of 207 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: one percent. And that's a Bloomberg Business flash, Tom and 208 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: Mike Karen, thanks so much again. The EN It is 209 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: at eight on Wall Street. The following is from Bloomberg 210 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: View Opinions in commentary from Bloomberg columnists. I'm Justin Fox, 211 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: a columnist for Bloomberg View. Non Competes are agreements that 212 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: keep employees from going to work for a competitor for 213 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: a predetermined period of time. Proponents have long defended them 214 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: is a way to encourage employers to invest in workers skills. 215 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: Critics have depicted them as unfair restraint of trade. In 216 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: the eighteen seventies, without really meaning to, California lawmakers made 217 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: it impossible for employers to enforce non competes in the state. 218 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: About a century later, something interesting happened. A region of 219 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: California became the global headquarters of the tech industry, with 220 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: a unique business culture that tolerated job hopping and celebrated startups. 221 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: This wasn't a coincidence. California's ban on the enforcement of 222 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: non competes helped make Silicon Valley what it is today. 223 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: Recent research has shown that non competes reduce entrepreneurship and 224 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: cause brain drain from regions that enforced them. There's even 225 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: some evidence that non competes reduce worker motivation. Yet the 226 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 1: use of non competes appears to be growing, even for 227 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: fast food workers in summer camp counselors. This is ridiculous. 228 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: More states should consider following California's lead. I'm Justin Fox, 229 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: a columnist for Bloomberg view for more Bloomberg opinion and commentary, 230 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 1: Please go to Bloomberg View dot com or view go 231 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: on the Bloomberg terminal. This has been Bloomberg View and 232 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: bloomber View commentaries can be here to hourly weekdays on 233 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. We're throw to bring a Douglas Duncan darkened 234 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: the store of College Station, Texas a few years ago. 235 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: Uh to take his pH d. Dug Duncan is with 236 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: Fannie May. Doug what is the appropriate amount every month 237 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: that we should put into rent or housing? This is 238 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: the hottest and most sensitive of topics in Paris, London, 239 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: New York, Washington, San Francisco. It's out of control. How 240 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: much a month should we put in Yeah, I take 241 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: a long term rule of some and somewhere around a 242 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: third something in that Paul Park and you're certainly seeing 243 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: well above that in some markets now the ones that 244 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: you mentioned. I was just out in Santos and there's 245 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: essentially no affordable homes single family detached homes available for sale, 246 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: and uh anything close to the core business the district 247 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: or near in rents. They're uh certainly pushing above that 248 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: number that I decided. What is the social cost of 249 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: that if any is it a good thing, is it 250 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: a bad thing? Is it handeringing by how do you 251 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: by liberals, how do you equate in the reality that 252 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: we're putting in thirties three or forty two or of 253 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: our income or just to survive every month? Yeah, it 254 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: hass two or three impacts. One is certainly reduces the 255 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: ability and household to save. And you know, one of 256 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: the things that was a huge contributor to the crisis 257 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: was success leverage at both the household and business levels. 258 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,359 Speaker 1: So to the extent your housing costs is a contributor 259 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: to excess leverage, and also that's a negative um A. 260 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: The second thing is that for the business community, at 261 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: some point you won't be able to afford to pay 262 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: a wage rate that will allow the the worker to 263 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: live in close enough proximity to make it make sense 264 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: to work for their company. So you'll start to see 265 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: some business migration at some point. You saw that in 266 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: the mid eighties in California it was a large outmigration 267 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: of small business there Holding and Utah, Oregon. So it 268 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: will lead to some relocation issues on the part of 269 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: it takes some time for the cost structure to get 270 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: to that point, uh and and um, but before you 271 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: see that move and that's not good for a well growth. Um. 272 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: The question that comes to mind is, in most cases 273 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: you have a situation like that, the market is going 274 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: to find a way to clear. Uh. Somebody would come 275 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: in and build housing for the workers that can't afford 276 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: to live anywhere else. But you've got the addation in 277 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: real estate and they get zoned out. They don't want 278 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: lower priced houses anywhere near the expensive ones. Yeah, it's true. 279 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: I mean I'm saying story Saturday and talking to a 280 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: builder about a year ago that had a couple of 281 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: thousand lots available for development, but it had been through 282 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: uh thirteen public hearings over a three year time period 283 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: and still wasn't uh permited yet. You know, if you 284 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: considered what caught the carrying costs and the regulatory costs 285 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: of that, and then the fact that that wager rate 286 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: it's real wagerings and construction outbacks and the peak they 287 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: were in the boom at the peak of the boom, 288 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: that's not going to be affordable housing when it comes down. 289 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: Is it rent or by what is the research that 290 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: you show? I mean, I know you're in a buy 291 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: mode a mortgage, mode a venue may but we actually 292 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: we did the We financed about forty two billion dollars 293 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: well my family last year, so we're we're actually and 294 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: both owned and rented. Um. You know, the population UH 295 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: suggests today that the homewards it breaks about right, it's 296 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: sixty three percent. We're we're in the gene slowdown, and 297 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: then we'll see a pick up when the millennials come 298 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: back back to the sixty four maybe six or four 299 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: a half percent years down the road. So we're closed 300 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: to the balance. The problem is there's just not supply 301 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: on the low end, so it gets to that cost 302 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: problem that you're talking about, the accelerated share. I mean, Doug, 303 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: your world is the second biggest mail we get. The 304 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: first biggest mail we get is when somebody comes out 305 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: and announces there's no inflation and people who people go 306 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: mental when they see that. And the next biggest one, Mike, 307 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: we get is you gotta be kidding me. Unlocked, My 308 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: kids are locked, My grandchildren are lucked. They can never own. 309 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: I mean, how do we as a society fix down 310 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: on a huge number in too many of our cities 311 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: in towns. Well, that's um, twenty percent down. Only if 312 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: you don't want to pay mortgage insurance, you can get 313 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: higher LTV loans. We actually have a product called home Ready, 314 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: which is a loan to value. Obviously, the underwriting criteria 315 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: are the stronger to make sure that that putting only 316 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: three percent down means you're committed to the paying a mortgage. 317 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: But f h A has higher loan to value on products, 318 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: so it's UH and we have a range in it 319 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: include private mortgage insurance, so those things are available, but 320 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: you do have to be credit credit quality. The higher 321 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 1: the loan to value on the property, because the investors 322 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: will make sure that you're willing to pay that loan back. 323 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: The real issue is supplied might touched on it. UH. 324 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of development restrictions in the 325 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: neighborhoods that are are controlling for lower density. That means 326 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: land is the most expensive component of building house because 327 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: UM there are restrictions on the size of lot developments, 328 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: so UM deregulation. I was talking to a couple of 329 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: builders talking about there are ways to improve productivity in building, 330 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: but you have to change all the local building codes 331 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: to import new technologies and that takes time. At set 332 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: market by in our market activities and building coast typically 333 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: are are local, douc thank you so much, Douglas Duncan 334 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 1: with Fannie May with a nice update there and house. 335 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: We like to do that question once a quarter, maybe 336 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: every hundred days. Get Dug Duncan in to give us 337 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: respective dock thank you so much, with Fannie May and 338 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: Freddie Mike McKie. I look at it and I will 339 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: say this, folks, with all good cheer. We are so framed, Mike, 340 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: by the world we live in. I mean, when you 341 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: think about opening the Sunday New York Times magazine or 342 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: I'm guessing the cheapest real estate in there is what 343 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: three millions, they're four million, They're they're appealing to a 344 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: different demographic than I and and the surrealness that we're 345 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: we're acutely aware to all of your nationwide coast to 346 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: coast on our different bloomer Boston Bloomer eleven three oh 347 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: and everybody out there. Mike and I are acutely aware 348 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 1: that where we live, what we do with our kids 349 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: is well not Doug Duncan's world. It's true in San 350 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 1: Francisco certainly as well. Um, you know, markets where limited 351 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: supply drives up the cost. How big is is it? 352 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: I'm looking around at retail sales tomorrow. How big a 353 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: deal is that. It's a reasonably big deal because if 354 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: you get a bad number, that's going to start um more. 355 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: Talk about the FED being pushed out just at a 356 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 1: time when maybe some FED officials are trying to pull 357 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: the idea of a radio increase closer in time, but 358 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: you know June would be the first time for the 359 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 1: realistically doing. You need to be with us tomorrow morning 360 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: eight thirty will go beneath the headline data with our 361 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: good guests and of course Michael McKee's big time perspective 362 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 1: on the nation's consumer. It is Bloomberg surveillance