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With median prices for both existing and new homes at all time highs, and soaring at a record annualized rate of almost 20%...... increasingly more Americans find themselves priced out of homeownership, while still cautious banks refuse to lend them the mortgages they so desperately need to live the American Dream (on credit). And unfortunately, since most US houses are made out of wood, we have even more bad news: home prices are about to get even more expensive if for no other reason than the frenzy sweeping the lumber market is set to keep going through the summer peak...

Joe Biden rolled out his economic agenda in a speech Thursday that was heavy on the Obama-era policy greatest hits. The mainstream press mostly billed the Biden priorities that echo President Trump's, including boosting manufacturing, renegotiating trade deals, reducing dependence on China, and implementing buy-American provisions. These positions are a smokescreen to distract centrist voters from the far-left policies that Biden would implement under his de-facto campaign chairman Bernie Sanders if he took office. President Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, where Biden spoke on Thursday, by 11, 27, and 50,000 votes, respectively. Biden understands that he won't be able...