transported. just like it already does to feel up your car. heating oil is expensive. propane is going to be expensive. gas is expensive. i went to two different gas stations today. both were changing their price numbers as i drove in. why? look, 23feeding your family, sa thing. you re going to see food costs go up. not having the people and equipment to make and move product affects everything. that s why everything seems to cost more. why it s harder to take care of your family. so let s deal with the why. why are we short labor and equipment? well, the? is the easier part of the analysis. why? because it s about making. people make, right? you have to make the parts. so you ll hear about a lot of people waiting on parts, okay? a whole product, you ll hear that also. but look for parts. you re going to hear about parts. cars, different you know, the trucks that are used for long haul supply. you know, even when we have the workers, a lot of the equipment is down. why? because they
ships that are waiting to dock. but when we talk about the blob or the supply chain, there are many links. and you know what they say about change, right? only as strong as the weakest link. forecasts for home heating just came out. why are they going up? because everything will that needs to be produced or transported. just like it already does to feel up your car. heating oil is expensive. propane is going to be expensive. gas is expensive. i went to two different gas stations today. both were changing their price numbers as i drove in. why? look, feeding your family, same thing. you re going to see food costs go up. not having the people and equipment to make and move product affects everything. that s why everything seems to
choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people paying their respects. so this is as it was expected. kim jong-un obviously now called the supreme leader according to state media was also front and center. zain? will anything change in north korea under kim jong-un? this is what everyone would like to know. at this point, the consensus appears to be that nothing will change in the near term. what we did see today was kim jong-un walking along
to speak. only ten of the top 20 cities are in the positive. ten are in the negative. i ll give you the winners. some of the good ones are all in california. san francisco, l.a., san diego. despite the heat, they are showing, some heat in home prices. the losers, though, five fell out of the positive into the negative in july. those were atlanta, cleveland, dallas, denver and portland, oregon. so, again, we are still kind of waiting to see about the effects of that home buyer tax credit. this report is a three-month running average looking back to july. and i want to do any math here but that says we re still under the influence of the homebuyer tax credit. and that is gone. basic leil, the next survey will be the first one without it? well, again if you do that three-month average. the next one will get most of the tax credit out of it. but we re seeing the weakening sales. prices always lag sales. on the up side and on the down side. we re already seeing sales coming lower off th