here? after the failed mutiny, russian military tried to absorb some wagner forces into regular troops. wagner forces, looks like looks like morgan may have lost her ifb. so, i think rather than trying to reestablish connection we will just bid morgan a fond farewell and adieu, and we will go on to the next thing. so, soaring mortgage rates have home buyers thinking small properties, shrinking, as builders cut back on their budgets and maybe cut corners, our economic panel sounds off on that. doug holtz-eakin and robert wolf. sandra: like shrinkflation, they make the cereal boxes smaller but charge the same price, doing it with houses announcement thank you. a new warning for parents. are your kids hiding vape pens in plain sight? devices are all designed to
great to have you. it s something we have been talking on this program a lot about, and as i remind everybody, for most americans owning a home the single largest asset they will ever acquire in their lives. many will stay in them for quite some time. so, doug, what is happening here? are we seeing the american dream shrinking? i mean, at least with these housing sizes that is happening. they are charging the same amount and you are getting less. well, you adjust on the margins you can and this is a very tough environment. you can t really look for apartments, you know, apartment rents are going up at over 5% a year still, we have high interest rates, we have, you know, the fallout of the great overstimulus, left us with inflation and real wages down 6% since the start of the biden administration. so what margin do you have left to make it cheaper? shrink the house, that s what they are doing. sandra: that s really interesting.
felt especially hard, haven t we, seen our jobs shipped overseas in recent years, an economy that just can t seem to grow either in small businesses or large businesses and we ve seen the american dream shrinking in communities just like this one. the truth is, they tell us this is the best that we can do. hillary clinton s got a plan to continue the same failed policies of this administration and then some. we ll see donald trump in sterling heights today. if we went back in history for those of us old enough to remember, reagan democrats. they re trying to create trump democrats. they re going to people, yes, you can make the case it s 4.9% unemployment. if you remember the great recession at the beginning of the obama administration, the country is in a much better place but you can find a lot of pockets, mostly in these big, blue swing states where even if the numbers are better they don t feel t their legs are tired.