Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Tax credit spurs big surge in Western Washington home sales Before we get into the roundup, I’d like to take a moment…
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Job Loss Crash Comparison Update / Stimulus Rant
A reader wrote in requesting an update to this February post, in which I criticized Nancy Pelosi’s misleading chart of job losses. Here’s an update to the post-WWII job loss chart, courtesy of Calculated Risk, in which I’ve added a mark so you can see where the “stimulus” was passed. Wow, good thing we changed…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-31
Part 1 of another story on how WaMu killed itself. http://is.gd/4B1Yc Is it just me or does Killinger look a bit like Willem Dafoe? # Is Seattle losing recent competitions for new Aerospace jobs in part due to high real estate prices? http://is.gd/4BbR9 # Up north: Banks foreclosing on Whatcom County's unsold condo projects –…
Boeing Still by Far the Biggest Player in the Puget Sound Economy
Quick note on the potential impact of a long-term departure of Boeing from the Puget Sound. The Seattle-area economy is definitely more diverse than it was in the ’70s, but Boeing still dominates the employment base by the numbers. A 2003 table from the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce shows Boeing employing more people than…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-24
5,000-acre flopped development in Pierce made front-page news in the Tacoma News Tribune today: Chapter 11 for Cascadia http://is.gd/4oCjp # PSBJ: Mastro Properties is in worse financial condition than “many creditors imagined." http://is.gd/4oHFI # New Seattle web-based news outlet The SunBreak takes a look at Seattle's commercial real estate mess: http://is.gd/4oIvA # What the heck?…