Jon Lansner
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- Sep 30, 2026
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California home prices 3rd weakest in US, by this math (opens the original)
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A rare bit of good news for California house hunters: Mid-year pricing was at its weakest in nearly three years. Well, that was before the housing market was hit with 7% mortgages once again. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a curious home price index from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that tracks the prices of more affordable homes, using purchase and refinancing application data. This index shows that in the 12 months through June, California home prices gained only 0.9%. How slow is that?
How inflation eats up your household’s income (opens the original)
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Why is almost everybody so grumpy about the cost of living? A recently updated dataset confirms these inflation anxieties, as rising costs gobble up more of whatever income growth you managed to earn. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed something economists call “real median household income” for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Simply put, that’s how the Census Bureau each year estimates consumer buying power: what a household makes – including paychecks, investments and pensions – after
How inflation eats up your household’s income (opens the original)
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Why is almost everybody so grumpy about the cost of living? A recently updated dataset confirms these inflation anxieties, as rising costs gobble up more of whatever income growth you managed to earn. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed something economists call “real median household income” for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Simply put, that’s how the Census Bureau each year estimates consumer buying power: what a household makes – including paychecks, investments and pensions – after
How inflation eats up your household’s income (opens the original)
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Why is almost everybody so grumpy about the cost of living? A recently updated dataset confirms these inflation anxieties, as rising costs gobble up more of whatever income growth you managed to earn. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed something economists call “real median household income” for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Simply put, that’s how the Census Bureau each year estimates consumer buying power: what a household makes – including paychecks, investments and pensions – after
How inflation eats up your household’s income (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Why is almost everybody so grumpy about the cost of living? A recently updated dataset confirms these inflation anxieties, as rising costs gobble up more of whatever income growth you managed to earn. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed something economists call “real median household income” for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Simply put, that’s how the Census Bureau each year estimates consumer buying power: what a household makes – including paychecks, investments and pensions – after
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