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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
Unbalanced equations
With consolidators doing their best to hoover up both independents and each other in recent days, some have forgotten about the
You can’t get there from here
More April showers in the housing market. Starts and permits are out and both the U.S. and Canada are down for
Job growth takes a holiday
That was a close call. We were running out of excuses for pessimism until the April jobs report came out