Conrad Putzier
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first heard Aug 2025
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And it's always been easy to move long distances.
And this mobility, this ability of people to just move around, switch jobs, buy and sell houses, it's really defined the American economy for a really long time.
And it's been a big source of its strength.
And now we've seen that weaken.
So the long-term trend is this decline in mobility that we've seen for decades.
So we have fewer people moving and fewer people switching jobs gradually each decade.
And no one knows exactly why that is.
The most convincing theories that we've heard are just an aging population, right?
There's fewer young people as a share of the population.
And if you're older, you're just more settled.
You're less likely to move.
You're less likely to want to switch jobs.
Another factor that we think plays an important role is that there are now more households with two wage earners than there were, say, in the 1960s.
And what that means is if two people in your family work, it makes it harder to move somewhere else.
Right.
Because, say, one parent gets a job in a different city, but the other parent has a job in the city that they're already in that really complicates things.
Right.
And might make you decide to not take that job up somewhere else.
But on top of those fundamental long running trends, we have everything that's been going on the last two years, which is.
This incredible surge in interest rates, which have made the housing market really unaffordable and made it really hard to sell your house or buy your house.
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