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9th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market Bracing for Long-Term Disruption
9th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer
The Construction Market
Bracing for Long-Term Disruption
Two things are required to support the construction market: The need for something to be built and the ability and willingness to pay for it. A decline in the US economy slows expansion … Read the rest “9th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market Bracing for Long-Term Disruption”
Cut the Payroll Not the Culture
Cut the Payroll
Not the Culture
Even though we have never experienced a viral contagion on the scale of this pandemic before, we have, in fact, recently experienced a similar business interruption called the Great Recession of 2008. We know about suddenly shrinking construction markets and have research data concerning … Read the rest “Cut the Payroll Not the Culture”
10th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit
10th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer
The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit
If you did the exercise recommended last week in the ninth Crisis-era Message and determined to your own satisfaction that the US economy and the construction market will rebound in six months or less … Read the rest “10th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit”
11th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Ripple Effect of this Economic Disruption
11th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer
The Ripple Effect of this Economic Disruption
Sending employees home from work, limiting the size of business and social gatherings and wearing protective masks has a lot of people wondering about life in the future. What will education and school … Read the rest “11th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Ripple Effect of this Economic Disruption”
If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball You’ll Strike Out
If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball
You’ll Strike Out
The Last Downturn
The 2008-2012 construction market downturn hit residential construction first. The burst of the $8 trillion housing bubble in 2007, and the subsequent collapse of the financial markets in 2008, created massive disarray in homebuilding. As many … Read the rest “If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball You’ll Strike Out”
12th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Potential and Timing of Recovery
Please circulate this widely. It will benefit your constituents. This research is continuous and includes new information weekly as it becomes available. Thank you, Tom
12th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer
The Potential and Timing of Recovery
The US economy will recover as will the construction … Read the rest “12th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Potential and Timing of Recovery”
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