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US Rents for Single-Family Homes Surge, Pull Further away from Multifamily by Wolf Richter. Rents spiked in San Francisco, Chicago, NY City, Rochester, Kansas City… rose more slowly in others… fell in Austin. Asking rents for mid-tier SFRs, at $2,203 in November, were 25.4% higher than asking rents for multifamily units at $1,757. San Francisco, CA : +1.2% in November from October, +10.1% year-over-year. Rent inflation has been more than 2x the feds target for a decade. How does one ask for a $12-15,000 raise ? “Man my rent went up!” Rents in Southern Nevada are no longer surging and have recently stabilized or dipped slightly. California migration remains a major pressure point for the Las Vegas Valley. Israel is at the forefront of using AI to surveil, control, and murder human beings, and it has the “opportunity” that other countries dont to constantly test and fine tune that technology on a captive population. Gulf investors have quietly begun to join Israeli-related tech companies cap tables, injecting capital into Israeli firms, often without public announcement. The Middle East is warming at twice the global average and by 2050 will be 4 degrees Celsius warmer. The UAE & KSA are countries that have been building massive malls and skyscrapers for residence and offices for decades, and like Americans they run their a/c too hard. A building can keep heat out (solar gain) using the right outer coatings. Part-Time Work Surges, Precious Metals Highs, and Key Ratios: Recession Signals Intensify – Peak Prosperity Log-In / Join Start Here Community Take Action Peak Events Our Products Peak Prosperities. The 30-day relative Niño 3.4 Index has dipped to -0.86˚C, the lowest of the event so far. Israel has announced a new system for digitally tracking Palestinians 24/7 without trial. On March 8, Switzerland will vote on the initiative Cash is Freedom The global economy is experiencing a structural breakdown in the conversion of financial claims into physical output… The bankruptcy of US Magnesium in September 2025… French President Macrons declaration says effectively nothing abut the war in progress, or about keeping it going. Subtext of the Declaration is about who will have influence in post-war Ukraine. The world has too many car brands. shake-out is inevitable, but of course, Stellantis (Chrysler) will get bailed out. Could this be Trump claiming that Venezueal is going to give us what it has already extracted. The parties are now the equivalent of rival Mafia families now, with no concern at all for the good of the nation or for their reputations with the disempowered common folk. No mention of the US imposing sanctions on Venezuela. Investors Snap Up Nearly Half of Vacant Lots in Fire-Damaged Palisades and Malibu. China bans retractable EV door handles over safety concerns. Electronic door handles are reportedly three times more expensive than mechanical ones, yet suffer from an eight-fold higher failure rate. This POS design is actually MORE expensive than traditional mechanical door latches. For someone living near the heart of EU warmongering in France, the scariest prospect is of a hot war with Russia. Trump taking Greenland would make a mockery of the idea that Europe cares about Ukrainian territorial sovereignty. The West consumes 13,000 tonnes of silver for industrial use annually, yet we have offshored the capacity to produce the ultra-high purity powder and paste required for advanced electronics. Everything happening in China seems to point to going back to the future, and why not embrace silver again? Russia has sent a submarine and other naval assets to escort an empty, rusting oil tanker that has become a new flashpoint in U.S.-Russia relations. Russia should be hitting the container gimbels, for which demand perennially outstrips supply. Indiana Mayor Snyder was already under federal investigation when he moved back to Portage, Indiana. He was the guy who scrutinized Snyders Campaign Finance Reports.