Weekend edition
Rates might be headed back down, but housing affordability isn’t getting any better 🏠
💭 In fact, housing affordability is worse now than it was at the peak of the 2007 housing bubble. The median American household would need to spend 45.3% of their income to afford the median-priced home — a record.
More cool insights, charts, and other tidbits below.
— Matthew and Shawn
Quote of the Day
“ New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
— Lao Tzu
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Tune In
🎧 Top stocks for 2024 with Jonathan Boyar
🎥 Engineer breaks down how to save Venice from drowning
🎥 Why the future of work is play with Dan Koe
🎧 Business durability and strategy masterclass with Hamilton Helmer
What We’re Reading
📖 Books: The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai
📰 Long-form articles: The mysteries behind Amazonian “dark earth”
🗞️ Advice: Seven strategies for being more productive in 2024
Trivia
What percentage of U.S. workers work remotely at least part of the week?
Final Thoughts
🔢 One Big Number: 20% — the percentage of Harvard Business School MBA graduates without a job three months after graduation, up from 8% in 2021.
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