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Started reading your reports during the Great Recession era. Soon learned that you were almost always weeks ahead of the rest of the analysts - and rarely wrong despite calling your shot first. Over the decade or so you've published, you've never once lost my confidence in you. Best thing about your reports - - you challenge your readers to find any explanation for any trend identified. Late Sunday morning coffee and a John Wake report - great stuff. Now . . . my thought . . . frequently stone cold nuts. When we finally get decent population data I bet we learn that Phoenix area population swings and tsunamis have a lot in common. COVID pushed a massive flood of people into the County. After hanging out here for a year or two, many remembered why they vacation in Arizona but don't live here. Now . . . . what to do about that emotional 2020/21 decision to buy a house?

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