New Home Sales Collapse 33%

Once again a government program, just as Cash for Clunkers did, has shoved demand forward setting the market up for collapse once the government incentives run out:

Sales of new homes collapsed last month, sinking 33 percent to the lowest level on record as potential buyers stopped shopping for homes once they could no longer get government incentives.

The Commerce Department says new home sales fell in May from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 300,000. That was the slowest sales pace on records dating back to 1963.

It indicates that buyers left the market as federal tax credits of up to $8,000 expired at the end of April.

Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected a May sales pace of 410,000. April's sales pace was revised downward to 446,000.

So, for a few months Obama gets a tick up in the economic numbers to make it look like his policies are turning the economy around, when in fact they're simply postponing the pain.