Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.

First a quick programming note we have one more

special guest episode for you over the holidays and we're excited to drop that one for

you next week. I know many of you are traveling to see family over the holidays. This will probably be a shorter show, but we had to talk about Colorado and even more good news as we close out the year.

Alex, I'm happy about closing out this year, trust me.

Where should we get started?

Yeah, I wanted to continue the good news and it's a holiday season.

Joe, I saw a tweet from you that I thought was worth reading.

I think you sent this this morning as a recording this, you said, and this is a follow-up

from our conversation last week.

He said, there's always been a lag of several months but this will show up in

polling prior to 2024 elections and the headline that you shared was U.S. consumer confidence

jumps to five month high and home sales eke out gains.

Yeah, this is again more positive news.

The second time we've had really good consumer confidence numbers going up. And this was a significant jump. Consumer

confidence index rose to 110.7 in December. You're seeing like labor market

differential increases that increased to

27.5 from 23.0 existing home sales gained nearly a point in November but

again that's moving up. It's going in the right direction.

Medium hold prices rose 4%, $387,000 from a year ago.

And you keep seeing this,

the more, none of those other numbers really matter,

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