While researching real estate I found this: S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
It’s a collection of real estate indices tracking the price of homes in the USA divided into regions, as well as a total national home price index:
It looks like they also list futures and options on certain cities as well as a “composite of 10”. I’ll take a look into this further, see what kind of trading volume takes place there.
I was specifically looking at the Phoenix index vs. the national index:
Things have been feeling extra frothy in Phoenix, and I wasn’t suprised to see evidence that the PHX index crossed over the national in March, 3 months ago.
If I felt like a macro economic genius I could tell you with certainty what the Fed’s massive balace sheet increase means for inflation. But I don’t know. Some of what Steve Van Metre* says makes sense to me (if what he assumes to be true is true). I do worry that they (IMF? Fed?) will pull a quick one using digital currency. By forcing a massive conversion from USD (and others?) to DigiDollars by some date they could reset the money supply in some sense.
*I’m sure you could pick any video and he’ll give you the same message: Fed QE infinity isn’t inflationary, it’s deflationary. I used to watch him a lot, then it’s amazing to see how he can stay focused on one idea for so long. And either he’s missing something or just extremely early on this thesis, it seems like you can go broke waiting for bubbles to pop, and I think he’s been looking at this one for over 10 years now.
Coming up later we’ll look into “Changepoint Detection”, what kind of research and software is out there. We will also check out KMikeyM, and how he sells and facilitates trading of “voting shares” that have influence on his life decisions. Until next time pardner.