Over My Shoulder

Housing stats games

February 22, 2012

Joan McCullough looks under the hood at the recent "growth" in housing. Which wasn't. Unless you revise the numbers so that it was. So to all the breathless reporters and econ types who sent emails and talked on TV about about the growth in housing, please from now on look at least a few lines deep into the release before you tout the recovery of housing for the 24th month in a row (insert multiple expletives right about here).

Download - STATSBACKUP2-22-12.pdf