Housing and gas prices fall. Thousands scheduled to take to the streets and protest Trump.

Photo above - AI's response to the prompt "Cage-free child labor at a poultry farm ". Egg prices have dropped recently.

Can I ask a question: when did affordable housing become a “looming threat”? (see link below)

For the past 4 years – maybe longer – pundits (myself included) have roasted our government because of the housing affordability crisis. Some politicians were spurred to action. The Mayor of Washington DC broke ground on a new low income housing project a few months ago. The cost? A startling $1.2 million per apartment. (see my column last week).

Somebody flipped the script, and now the media is hoping we have short memories of good vs evil. Falling housing prices are castigated as a “looming threat”. Because we are sheep and will believe anything?

It’s not just Dallas experiencing falling home prices (the topic of the Daily Mail’s theory that the world is ending..) Here in Tampa home prices are coming down too. I have no basis to say whether housing is more affordable in once city vs the other, however. The Daily Mail's writers must already own their homes, and regard price reductions as a looming threat to making an instant killing when it comes time to sell.

Gas prices are down too. I paid $2.94 a gallon yesterday. The average price in 2024 was $3.30 a gallon. Probably going up next week though, because Israel is carpet bombing Tehran. Big oil and filling station operators never miss an opportunity to capitalize on tragedies.

Eggs are down too. But I don’t credit any Trump or Biden policies for this. My theory is that the chickens which were most susceptible to H5N1 Chinese bird flu are now dead and buried. Poultry farmers can produce a new generation of chickens in 6 weeks. A human generation is defined as 30 years. I hope China isn't cooking up H5N2 or Bat-3 in any of their labs.

Weren’t we supposed to be reeling from “tariff inflation” at this point? I’m not seeing it. Just for fun yesterday (during my first oil change) I priced Honda Civic like the one I bought on November 5th, 2024. It has the same sticker price. Where the heck are the darned tariff markups? I predicted this thing would be at least two thousand bucks higher by now.

This writer freely admits that she has no economic crystal ball. My columns over the past year have attacked the housing crisis, sky high mortgage interest rates, and the average price of a new car skyrocketing to $48,400 in 2024. (full disclosure – I paid $33,600 for my Civic hybrid). And of course, the federal debt, which Trump is trying to send to the moon.

I am thankful I did NOT predict that angry mobs would taking to the streets, torching Waymos, and tossing rocks at police to protest tariff driven inflation. Never in a thousand years would I have dreamed that instead this far left street violence would be triggered by the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens with outstanding warrants.

I’m just sayin’ . . . `

Once-scorching housing market now in free fall: 'Looming threat' |Daily Mail Online