Feb. 28: LO jobs; home price change, customer behavior tools; CFPB drops several cases; gov’t cutbacks & unemployment

Here in Miami, and everywhere, lenders and real estate professionals are acutely aware of supply and demand impacting prices, as does anyone who buys and eats food. The U.S. Federal Reserve can only do so much inflation, and whether or not the Federal government admits it, skyrocketing egg prices are largely the result of a widespread bird flu outbreak that forced a mass culling of egg-laying birds. (Avian influenza is suspected in the decline of peregrine falcons: falcons will hunt other birds; they may be more vulnerable than other species to the virus.