Linkage: Zillow says it’s time to buy
One bizarro upside of recent negative economic headlines is the housing market is skewing in favor of buyers. Fewer bidding wars as we’ve been hammering lately, and Zillow says home inventory is increasing ever-so-slightly.
Also, everyone from the Pope to factory workers in Arizona is worried about robots. Check out these reads and let us know what sticks out to you.
- Zillow calls a buyer's market(zillow.com)
- Microsoft teams up with the...uh, the Pope? To talk about AI?(reuters.com)
- Robots are splitting America in two(nytimes.com)
- Tech bros who are about to be IPO-rich are fleeing California's taxes(recode.net)
- The guy who came up with the Energizer bunny is calling it quits(adweek.com)
- Jobless claims 14k higher than expected at 239k(dol.gov)
- Retail sales were way down in December (census.gov)
- New Yorkers don't want Amazon's stores or its HQ(paymentssource.com)
- Maybe because Amazon doesn't pay any taxes?(itep.org)
- And because of all that, the Amazon/NYC deal is off(nytimes.com)
- Startup student lender gets a ton of money from big banks(americanbanker.com)
- Consumer finance regulator wants to let lenders make loans with less oversight(consumerfinancemonitor.com)