S8 Ep110: PREVIEW Architect's Index Signals Continued Economic Contraction Gene Marks Gene Marks discusses the architect's index, which serves as a leading indicator for the direction of the American economy, forecasting big buildings and high-end residential const
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🗓️ 22 November 2025
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Architect's Index Signals Continued Economic Contraction
Gene Marks
Gene Marks discusses the architect's index, which serves as a leading indicator for the direction of the American economy, forecasting big buildings and high-end residential construction six to twelve months ahead. For the eleventh consecutive month, the index showed contraction, not expansion, indicating a difficult market for architects and mixed, non-encouraging economic pictures overall.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Gene Marks, small business columnist, |
| 0:06.9 | who travels the nation from Florida to Nevada to California, speaking to associations and measuring |
| 0:14.6 | the economy. He especially speaks about AI. He writes a column for Forbes magazine on AI. |
| 0:24.1 | This is one of Gene's favorite from before AI all the time indexes of the direction of the American economy. The Architects Index, it's |
| 0:31.1 | not encouraging. There are mixed pictures everywhere. This is not mixed. Here's Gene. More of this later tonight. |
| 0:39.2 | Still not good. The architects yet again had another month of decline. You know, it is, these are |
| 0:49.7 | architects that are looking for. This is a leading indicator. The more the architects are involved, the better of that you can see ahead six to 12 months |
| 0:58.7 | of big buildings in high-end residential. |
| 1:00.9 | But for the 11th month in a row, architects' buildings were in depletion area as it was, contraction, |
| 1:08.8 | not expansion. |
| 1:10.1 | So still a rough market for architects in the buildings that they're designing. |
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