{"id":211797,"date":"2026-06-05T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211797\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:54:09","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-6-5-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211797\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 6\/5\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The housing market is hitting the brakes!<\/p>\n<p>In the US, demand for housing is at its lowest level since the Great Recession, declining by 1.3 million units per year below its pre-Covid average for this century. The median price of existing homes sold has also dropped since the middle of last year, although their inflation-adjusted prices have been dropping since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 6\/5\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The housing market is hitting the brakes! In the US, demand for housing is at its lowest level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-211797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}