More Bad Economic News During Recovery Summer – New Home Sales at Record Low

August 25, 2010
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While the delusional idiot in the White House keep telling us the economy is moving in the right direction, news like this keeps pouring in.

Washington Post: Sales of new homes dropped sharply last month to the slowest pace on record, the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading.The Commerce Department said Wednesday that new home sales fell 12.4 percent in July from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 276,600. That was the slowest pace on records dating back to 1963. The past three months have been the worst on record for new home sales.

Weak sales mean fewer jobs in the construction industry, which normally powers economic recoveries. Each new home built creates, on average, the equivalent of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in taxes, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Oh yeah, this is some recovery we’ve got going here. The Democrats’ idea of a bad economy is 5% unemployment and steady growth in GDP, so what do we expect?

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