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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3109978, member: 77814&quot;]you must be referencing lumber</p><p>yes, the US imposed higher tariffs last year on imported Canadian Lumber.</p><p>and they continue to increase the tariffs</p><p>==&gt; <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-builder-sentiment-slumps-as-lumber-costs-soar-2018-06-18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-builder-sentiment-slumps-as-lumber-costs-soar-2018-06-18" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-builder-sentiment-slumps-as-lumber-costs-soar-2018-06-18</a></p><p><br /></p><p>but the spat has been going on for more than just recently, this article even references dairy.</p><p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/canada-fires-back-over-unfair-and-punitive-us-tax-on-its-lumber-2017-04-25" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/canada-fires-back-over-unfair-and-punitive-us-tax-on-its-lumber-2017-04-25" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/canada-fires-back-over-unfair-and-punitive-us-tax-on-its-lumber-2017-04-25</a></p><p><br /></p><p>which all hits the housing market of course.&nbsp; I recall reading last year or what not, that many undocumented immigrants did most of the house framing.&nbsp; And they split after a crackdown so that caused a large shortage of labor, and pushed house framing costs higher, thus new home costs higher.&nbsp; So expect new house costs to continue to rise, and the supply continue to decrease.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the used market has a low supply too pushing up those prices.&nbsp; The other week I checked and my home value is up another $33k in the past year.&nbsp; I did NOT add it into my equity calculation as I think the bubble is gonna burst at some point and who cares .. I&#039;m not going to sell anyways.</p><p><br /></p><p>Savings rates are increasing, thus ppl are spending less.&nbsp; Which they could be freaked about the economy&#039;s direction right now.&nbsp; So less spending .. which means less buying.&nbsp; Junk credit defaults are rising too. My junk credit investments are just averaging about 1.70% now (10%+ just 1-1/2 yr ago before I pulled the plug and reversed) .. about the same as my high yield savings acct @ 1.7% but much safer !!&nbsp; I&#039;ve been getting out of them now for over a year and only have several hundred left, since I saw junk car loans start dumping a year + ago.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/some-6-million-americans-are-delinquent-with-auto-loans-and-its-going-to-get-worse-2016-11-30" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/some-6-million-americans-are-delinquent-with-auto-loans-and-its-going-to-get-worse-2016-11-30" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/some-6-million-americans-are-delinquent-with-auto-loans-and-its-going-to-get-worse-2016-11-30</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>a lot of the tariff stuff is hitting the market hard today.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]789018[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>but my FB and SQ are so far up today&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But silver and gold .. lackluster ..</p><p>[ATTACH=full]789022[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]789023[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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