U.S home sales disappointed as a key economic indicator fell more than expected in June. Today the National Association of Realtors announced that existing home sales dropped 1.7% in June from the numbers seen in May. Economists previous consensus had forecasted a drop of only 0.2% in June. The drop was made more disappointing by…
Mischa Fisher, Chief Economist
Mischa Fisher is the Chief Economist for Angi Inc., including brands Angi (formerly Angie's List) and HomeAdvisor, powered by Angi. In this role, he leads market research including consumer spending behavior, labor market dynamics and residential housing trends.
Prior to joining Angi, Fisher was Chief Economist and economic policy advisor to the Governor of Illinois, where he oversaw the state agencies responsible for economic development, employment security, housing, and professional licensing. Previously, he was a Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and a Legislative Director for the United States Congress in Washington D.C, focusing on financial markets, infrastructure, and technology policy.
Fisher's research and insights have appeared in a wide range of popular and industry press including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Meet the Press, US News, Fox, and Forbes, among others. He has also spoken as an expert for elite institutions including the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the National Governors Association, Harvard University, and various industry specific organizations.
Fisher is an instructor in applied quantitative methods and statistics at Northwestern University, and a member of the American Economic Association and the National Association for Business Economics. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
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What’s Being Spent in 2019? HomeAdvisor’s State of Home Spending Report 2019 is Now Live.
Do older houses need more emergency repairs? How much are people spending on home improvement? What’s the growth rate of overall spending and what factors contribute to annual household spending? Those insights and more are inside our recently launched 2019 State of Home Spending report. To understand any marketplace or economy, one must examine and…
How Tariffs Could Impact your Bottom Line when Renovating your Home
Whether a kitchen remodel, updating flooring or a full addition, home improvement takes resources and materials. Recently, there has been a lot of news about additional and increased tariffs on goods from countries like Canada, Mexico, and China. Many of these goods are commonly home improvement jobs, like countertop materials, hard and soft woods, other…
March 2019 – Nationwide Job Numbers, A Dream for Spring
Independent of the ongoing debate about whether the Fed overreached on the pace of their interest rate increases, this morning’s March employment numbers are a great bump heading into the spring. The addition of 196,000 jobs is a welcome sign that the initial mediocre February payroll numbers of only 20,000 new jobs was an outlier…
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