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Len Kiefer
Personal blog · lenkiefer.comeconomicsdata
Len Kiefer's personal blog at lenkiefer.com covers economics and data. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “US Labor Market Update”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Len Kiefer's posts for US labor market updates and analysis of housing prices, citing population, interest rate and QE data with FRED graphs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- US Labor Market Update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-04
What Hacker News says?
And the full blog post with more details: http://lenkiefer.com/2020/04/03/us-labor-market-update-april...
Comment linking /2020/04/03/us-labor-market-update-april-2020/
on “Ask HN: Who has been laid off?”Submitted US Labor Market Update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPopulation and construction costs are a loose correlation with housing prices, but I dont see any correlation with interest rates. http://lenkiefer.com/2017/12/20/state-population-growth-and-... Here is the graph showing QE vs housing prices. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=mbAe
Comment linking /2017/12/20/state-population-growth-and-house-prices/
on “There is more to high house prices than constrained supply”Submitted The inexorable growth of student debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis article is incredibly misguided for several reasons... 1.) If you truly are "rich," then you pay for your home in cash. You do not take out a mortgage on your house. Look at a distribution of loan amounts, the vast majority are around $600k. Very few are are >$1M [0]. Home loans are a product for middle-class Americans. 2.) A lot of rich people don't really pay income taxes like middle class people do. This is…
Comment linking /2016/10/11/hmda-viz1
on “How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality”