Economy: Median days homes for sale on market
Housing Inventory: Median Days on Market in the United States (MEDDAYONMARUS) | FRED | St. Louis Fed
Demographics: Many Florida home buyers are Seniors (duh!)
Seems obvious - and the % has gone up due to the huge "Baby boom" cohort peak now retiring, post Covid, which led to delayed moves.
Demographics: Population pyramid for China
From labor rich to labor poor in the near future.
Economy: “50% of US households have less than $60k in assets”
This is true but it might not mean what you think it means.
How to lie: “Only 12% of 30-year-olds are married and own a home”
A pop social media doomerism meme is that only 12% of 30-year-olds are married and own a home. Read why it's a bullshit metric.
Education, Work: Do students from wealthy backgrounds work part-time?
A chart shows more students "working" or "interning" if they come from wealthy households. But this may be misleading.
Demographics: China’s fertility rate drops to 0.93
Over the longer term, China's population is collapsing from 1.4 billion perhaps to 600 million or lower.
Public library usage has collapsed
My county recently opened new libraries – and one of them is in my city, where the square footage of the original library has been doubled.
Innovation: The decline in the incidence of home structure fires
Since the 1970s, the incidence of structure fires has declined by 55%.
Economy: Percent of household income spent on food
The percent of income spent on food has plummeted over the past century.