Introducing JobsWatch

The clearest early warning for real estate is payrolls. JobsWatch puts 90 years of monthly, fine-grained employment data at your fingertips—so you can spot turns in architecture, remodeling, office construction, and more.

The economy is slowing. We can see it in the data: leading indicators like factory new orders, stock prices, credit spreads, and consumer expectations are all weakening.

But the economy is not a monolith. Some sectors can thrive even amid a broader slowdown. Consider what happened in 2015: an ‘industrial recession’, where [sector]Manufacturing[/sector] c…