Housing starts rise 14.6%

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Housing starts rise 14.6% to a five month high.

http://www.census.gov/const/newresconst.pdf

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Tornado and flood damaged homes. New permits on these homes get counted. Numbers are always mis-leading.

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So full time, non-service industry jobs aren’t are barely increasing, there’s no real stimulus happening, there are millions of foreclosed houses in reserve owned by banks and new house construction is up…???

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It is no doubt that it is incomprehensible to many. How else mystery might unfold until it becomes the obvious and the obvious, a mystery?

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Also permits for new apartment buildings.

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FHFA House Price Index Rises 0.4 Percent in May;
Second Consecutive Monthly Increase

http://www.fhfa.gov/webfiles/21746/HPI72111.pdf