Great points all!

Yeah, this tightrope the N.A. fed is currently dancing down is scary enough to make me want to look away. :-) I agree, these economic blips could easily morph into general economic fubar, wouldn't take much either, IMO.

Did we not have another BIG bank get bought out from the Federal bank authorities today and resold to JP Morgan Chase?

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For sure, not that sequestering carbon is going to be viable anytime soon, and coupled with many wishing to occupy new digs, whether single-family or multi-units, using engineered products is a good idea for our current situation. Sure, everyone shopping for abodes of any kind would like to move into something that's up to less than a decade's old building codes, (instead of a cardboard box), so even though the earth artisans wouldn't like it in the interim places like Texas, (bless their bigger old hearts) should be thinking of jumping into or ramping up their building engineering industry instead of idiotic initiatives like excise taxing EVs. The dumb *&#$'ng so and so's! Since most 3rd world countries are no longer taking our plastic garbage, and rightly so, why not repurpose that crap into new building products?

The other big elephant problem in the wind regarding housing is yeah, there's nobody to build this stuff. Believe it or not, factory building sites like in China, prefab stuff, might be the way to go. Yeah, all kinds of ideas like this, I'm sure. Um, AI might do the paperwork and maybe a few building design instructions in an automated factory but it isn't anywhere near executing an erection plan on a building job site. Nope, still need people, lots of them that kind of don't exist.