New home sales tumbled in August to the slowest pace in 17 years, while the average sales price fell by the largest amount on record, demonstrating the depth of the problem that Washington is trying to solve.The Commerce Department said Thursday that new homes sales fell by 11.5 percent in August to a seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 460,000 units, the slowest sales pace since January 1991.
Let’s do a little rewrite:
Paragraph One: “New typewriter sales tumbled to their slowest pace in 17 years, while the average sales price fell by the largestamount on record, demonstrating the depth of the problem that Washington is trying to solve.”
Paragraph Two: “The Commerce department said Thursday that the demand for homes shifted in, which is reflected by the sharp decline in prices and quantity sold.”
Paragraph Three: “The median typewriter price fell less severely than the average typewriter price, meaning that the impact of the downturn is being felt more by those people that were buying and selling large, fancy, many featured typewriters than those producing and consuming more down-to-earth models. Oh yeah, and no one can predict the future, except me.”