An indicator lagging all others is the commodity price of lumber. When the price of lumber crashes — like in July 2018 — it usual coincides with a peak in house prices. This makes sense: if there’s a decrease in construction demand, prices have to fall to counteract the excess supply.
There may be temporary noise in the media, but the only real factor that affects the price of lumber is supply and demand
13
45 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about economics with this collection
Identifying the skills needed for the future
Developing a growth mindset
Creating a culture of continuous learning
Related collections
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates