Construction Spending for November declined again, for the 7th straight month. This is illustrate below in the bar graph from Briefing.com
![](http://www.briefing.com/Common/Images/Content/PageContent/EcData/nomconst.gif)
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The annualized rate of change in Construction Spending can be seen from the graph below:![](http://www.briefing.com/Common/Images/Content/PageContent/EcData/constyoy.gif)
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The monthly changes can be seen in the table below from Briefing.com![](http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c190/unlawflcombatnt/1-3-07grphConstrSpndgAct-X.gif)
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The actual numbers can best be seen in the chart below from the U.S. Census Bureau. (Residential Construction numbers are underlined in red.)
![](http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c190/unlawflcombatnt/1-3-07grphCnstrSpndCens2X.gif)
Again, November marked the 7th straight month of Construction Spending declines. November's total annualized Construction Spending was $1.184139 trillion. This was a decline of $2.6 billion from October's $1.18671 trillion, or a change of -0.2%.
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Residential Construction Spending decline, however, was much larger. November's annualized Residential Construction declined almost $10 billion, from $607.5 billion to $597.797 billion, for a change of -1.6%. The year-over-year decline in residential construction is 11%. However, the annualized rate of decline over the last 4 months has been much larger. (Compare the 2 numbers that are double underlined in red.) Since July 2006, Residential Construction Spending has declined $38 billion, from $635.904 billion in July to 597.797 billion in November, for a 4 month change of -6.0%. If this 4-month rate of decline continued for an entire year, the year-over-year decline would be $114 billion, or a change of -18%. At this rate, it would reduce our GDP by almost 1%. The loss of construction jobs, and the income they provide, would cause an even larger decline in GDP. Add to this the decline in spending financed by home equity extraction (expected to decline by at least $120 billion), and there will be an even larger decline in GDP.
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