Craig Richardson
speaker
213 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 3d ago
Craig Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 6.
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But she's been putting off cutting them down because the labor, the chainsaw, the hydraulic tree jacks, they're really expensive right now.
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In her work with Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, Drew is seeing consumers doing the same, holding off on home projects that aren't dire.
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If you're not renovating, you don't need supplies, which Morningstar's Jamie Katz says isn't great news for building material stores.
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Of course, there are projects you just can't put off.
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Those you got to fix.
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But to really get more people into hardware stores or lumber yards, you need home sales, says Zach Fritz with Sage Policy Group.
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But if you aren't moving, you just live with that kind of stuff.
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And existing home sales are down.
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And as we know all too well, mortgage rates just keep climbing.
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I'm Caitlin Tan for Marketplace.
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On the main drag of Pinedale, Wyoming is the tire store.
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Owner and mechanic Kirk Griggs is coming off a busy summer straight into a busy fall.
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Which lands them at Griggs.
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He orders new tires and puts them on and throws the old ones onto a growing pile of junk tires, which Griggs counts.
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His only complaint is he's paying a lot more for inventory.
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So that he can adjust customer prices, sometimes daily.
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And it's a similar story down the block at the mountain sports gear store, the great outdoor shop.
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Manager Brandon Swenson snags some fuel canisters for camping stoves.
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Just this morning he adjusted the price tag.
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Swenson says those adjustments became more frequent at the start of the year.
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