Won’t take yes for an answer
Last week housing starts did a happy dance; this week it’s existing home sales. When July housing starts came in.
How to vote in all 50 states
Red or blue, conservative or progressive, right or left, even Repug or Libtard if you’re that pissed off—it doesn’t matter.
A cure for stay-at-home boredom
We’re all bored to death sitting at home to steer clear of COVID-19. So what do you do about it?
Hotels whistle past the graveyard
LBM dealers are still pinching themselves. There are exceptions, but construction activity in many U.S. markets is up—sometimes by a
Cash out without selling out
There are exceptions, but they’re rare enough that they prove the rule: If you sell your business to an equity-backed
When COVID is long gone, this won’t be
Coronavirus forced employers into a grand experiment, and it has turned out to be one of the few positive developments
Economists place their bets
Obviously nobody knows how the coronavirus pandemic will play out. But if you’re in business, you have no choice: You’ve
How the pandemic could cripple housing
The pandemic triggered the steepest, fastest recession in U.S. history. Housing has mostly dodged the bullet. So far. Bloomberg argues
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Greg Brooks is the editor of LBM Executive and moderator of the Executive Council on Construction Supply. He is a founding editor of ProSales, author of the NLBMDA’s Scope of the Lumber & Building Material Industry, and a steering committee member at the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies. Brooks is a 50-year veteran of the construction supply industry with 18 years’ experience in the field. 303.845.4880, GSBrooks@LBMExec.com