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Housing Bubble & Bust #1 and #2 as Seen through Employment at Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Brokers - Wolf Street

2026-05-09T02:01:05.000Z

Nonbank mortgage lenders shed 40% of their jobs this time, and loan brokers 38%. They react to demand, which collapsed.

Weirdest U.S. Labor Market I’ve Ever Seen: Supply of Labor Shrinks Further while Private-Sector Jobs Grow - Wolf Street

2026-05-08T16:33:22.000Z

Federal government sheds more jobs, now down to 1966 levels. This labor market isn’t bad, just weird.

Is joy off the table? Have we lost the ancient knowledge of how to have a jolly time? | First Dog on the Moon - First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian

2026-05-08T06:32:38.000Z

Some folk suggest ‘having fun’ in the face of global doom hurtling can be an act of rebellion, and while this is not actually true it can be fun<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/-sp-first-dog-on-the-moon-subscribe-by-email">Sign up here to get an email</a> whenever First Dog cartoons are published</li><li><a href="http://firstshoponthemoon.com/">Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop</a> if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints</li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/08/is-joy-off-the-table-have-we-lost-the-ancient-knowledge-of-how-to-have-a-jolly-time">Continue reading...</a>

Prices of Used EVs Spike, from already Lofty Levels, as Gasoline Prices Spike. But Electricity Prices also Soared - Wolf Street

2026-05-08T00:46:15.000Z

High gasoline prices tilt operating costs in favor of EVs. But soaring electricity prices eat into that math.

Construction Spending on Data Centers, Factories, Chip Plants, Powerplants, Office Buildings: Boom one End, Bust the Other - Wolf Street

2026-05-07T19:31:55.000Z

AI investment mania and the second wave of semiconductor plants.

This fountain is not going down without a fight! - jwz

2026-05-07T00:41:19.000Z

Flames erupt as crews dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain:

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Last Days of Playland - jwz

2026-05-06T20:06:28.000Z

SF Memory:

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Housing Market’s Crucial “Spring Selling Season” Is in Tatters - Wolf Street

2026-05-06T17:55:48.000Z

For the 4th year in a row: Normal-ish mortgage rates, too-high prices, and the lock-in effect from the Fed’s reckless interest-rate repression.

File systems - jwz

2026-05-06T06:09:27.000Z

Dear Lazyweb,

For an external USB 5GB+ spinning disk (not SSD), is HFS a better choice than APFS? Assume no weird edge cases like spanning volumes or RAID are involved. It's just a disk.

It is very easy to find either answer, but hard to find one that sounds like it's from someone who knows what they are talking about, and isn't just cargo-culting it or reading from a press release. So show your work.

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New Single-Family Home Prices Drop Further amid Inventory Glut. But Lower Prices Beget Higher Sales - Wolf Street

2026-05-05T19:24:07.000Z

Inventory in the South still sky-high, up 60% from March 2019. But homebuilders understand what it takes: lower prices and big incentives.

Bond Market on Edge: Treasury Yields Spike, 30-Year to 5.03%, Mortgage Rates to 6.52%, as Gulf War Reheats - Wolf Street

2026-05-04T18:42:11.000Z

Which raises a question: How many more Fed rate cuts would it take in this inflationary era to drive the 30-year Treasury yield to 6%?

The US Government sold $723 billion of Treasury Securities this Week. Inflation Jumped and Met T-bill Yields - Wolf Street

2026-05-03T05:05:36.000Z

30-year Treasury yield looks like it’s setting up to break out past 5%. A rate cut while inflation is heating up could do it.

Happy time_t 1777777777 to all who celebrate - jwz

2026-05-03T03:09:07.000Z

# date +'%F %r %Z = %s' 2026-05-02 08:09:37 PM PDT = 1777777777

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A C A Bee - jwz

2026-05-02T20:27:02.000Z

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case

She seems to have argued at trial that she had no intent to harm anyone, and had only released the bees so they could "enjoy the lovely, flowering landscape" in the area. The landscape was also infested with deputies, though, and the jury does not seem to have believed that was a coincidence. [...]
I've seen no evidence that the one deputy taken to the hospital suffered from anaphylactic shock. It seems a lot more likely that his "elevated heart rate" was caused by his decision to tackle a 59-year-old beekeeper than by the bees themselves. But I'm speculating about that. [...]
This week, the judge sentenced Woods to six months on those charges. According to her lawyer, with time served she will be out in two weeks anyway. [...]
Finally, kudos to The Guardian for refusing to let society ignore the real victims in this case: the bees. "[A]bout a thousand of Woods's bees died during the encounter," it reported, "many of them crushed when several hives toppled as she wrestled with deputies trying to arrest her, and others because female honeybees die after delivering their sting." I assume that "about a thousand" is based on a careful reckoning by a court-appointed bee expert and not just a number that Woods threw out there. Regardless, while I don't really buy the deputies' story here, I do sympathize with the bees. They have enough trouble these days without humans getting them involved in dispute resolution. Leave the bees out of it.

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Fake Courtesy Machine - jwz

2026-05-02T18:10:19.000Z

Amadeo Capelli:

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Gap between Single-Family Rents & Multifamily Rents Widens to Record as Multifamily under Pressure - Wolf Street

2026-05-01T22:58:01.000Z

The big divergence of asking rents in 14 big metropolitan areas by single-family rentals and multifamily units.

Are all our politicians on drugs? No. Yet it is fair to say some may occasionally attend work refreshed | First Dog on the Moon - First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian

2026-05-01T06:18:39.000Z

Gor blimey it smells like a brewery

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Inflation in the Entire US economy Is Rocking and Rolling, and It’s Not Just Energy - Wolf Street

2026-04-30T21:51:23.000Z

The 6-month core services PCE inflation index, accelerating since August, hit 3.7% annualized. Chip prices and software wreak havoc amid consumer electronics.

Without Government Spending & Trade, GDP Rose by 2.5% in Q1, Boosted by AI Investments - Wolf Street

2026-04-30T17:06:39.000Z

Consumer Spending Was OK-ish. Federal government spending spiked back partially after collapsing during the shutdown. Trade worsened.

Regime Change: Powell, Chair of Mega-QE & “Ample Reserves Regime,” to Be Replaced by Warsh, who Wants a Smaller Balance Sheet - Wolf Street

2026-04-29T22:07:29.000Z

But Powell said he’d stay on as governor until “the investigation is well and truly over,” and promised “to keep a low profile” and support the new chair.