• Why is there growth in the housing sector right now?
• How high of an uptick is there in pending home sales?
• What is driving people to move?
• How do home offices and senior living factor into the current landscape?
• Where does the stock market fit into everything?

• How will continued surging housing demand be met?
• Home purchases spurring other sectors of economy?
• Remodeling: Creating home entertainment?
• How can there be a labor shortage in COVID-19 crisis?
• Will supply chain be able to meet housing demand?

• Why this index is a highly valuable economic measurement tool?
• Did this index really predict the Great Recession?
• How bad was the index earlier this year?
• What the current index is telling us?
• Using this measurement, what does Q4 look like?

• How long is the current housing expansion likely to go on?
• Change in how millennials look at housing?
• What do current housing permits indicate and what happens after Jan. 1?
• Retail expectations for remainder of the year?
• The influence of the male holiday shopper?
• Airline and hospitality impacts?

Episode 6: Dr. Kuehl Takes a Deep Dive Into Industrial Production Numbers

● Why industrial production numbers are so important

● What’s going on in the oil and gas sector right now?

● What caused industrial production growth to plummet?

● What can we expect for the rest of 2020 and into 2021?

● Why utilities play such a large role in this equation

● 3 things to look at when assessing the short-term and long-term outlooks

• Explanation of different DOL statistics provided and what to watch for
• Is the unemployment rate 8.4% or 14.7%?
• Where is consumer confidence right now and how does that relate to labor statistics?
• The city in the U.S. where you don’t want to be a job hunter right now
• Where do ASA member companies fall in this equation?
• What does the term “targeted recession” mean?

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• Purchasing Managers’ Index
• Credit Managers’ Index
• Industrial production numbers
• Why there is concern heading into 2021 as it relates to manufacturing
• And why there is optimism with these other key indicators
• Why mining numbers are important to the PHCP-PVF industry
• The correlation between the PMI and a bag of Cheez-It

ASA Chief Economist Dr. Chris Kuehl is back with his weekly “Keeping it Real with Dr. Kuehl” economic update podcast. In Episode 10 (8:10 in length), Dr. Kuehl, who recorded this episode at a forging industry convention live in Cleveland, takes a look at the what’s going on with the pandemic and what potential future responses could be:

• Will there be another full COVID-19-related lockdown in the United States?
• How other countries are currently responding
• Three factors that can turn the tables on the economic front right now
• When will see significant economic recovery in the U.S.?
• The importance of the American consumer in all of this
• What happens if there is another lockdown?