A selection of charts looking a various angles of current economic trends in the United States and San Francisco. For the past 50 years, the San Francisco and Bay Area housing markets have only “crashed” in tandem with a large, national, negative macro-economic event. Which is why it’s useful to look at important U.S. trends on issues such as employment, household debt, and stock market price to earnings ratios, as well as those trends that are more local.
