17th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr. Tom Schleifer The Concept of “Flexible Overhead” The US economy has always been and continues to be cyclical, therefore the construction market as an integral part of the economy will continue to…
16th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr. Tom Schleifer Preparing for the Next Construction Market Cycle It is almost impossible to run a business when the world economies are crashing around us for reasons so unique that there…
15th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Market Brief - Recommended Defenses Market Brief: The construction market is unchanged in that recovery continues to be pushed out farther with each new event as the expected pandemic reactions…
14th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Construction Market Downturn’s Impact on Profitability Most industries prosper during growth and many also profit when sales decline. Logic would suggest that if a business makes $X profit while…
Thirteenth Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Dynamics and Patterns of a Construction Market Downturn Finally: some light at the end of the tunnel. The US economy may have bottomed out and unemployment may have leveled,…
Please circulate this widely. It will benefit your constituents. This research is continuous and includes new information weekly as it becomes available. Thank you, Tom 12th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Potential and Timing of…
Eleventh Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Ripple Effect of this Economic Disruption Sending employees home from work, limiting the size of business and social gatherings and wearing protective masks has a lot of people…
Tenth Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit If you did the exercise recommended last week in the ninth Crisis-era Message and determined to your own satisfaction that the US economy…
Cut the Payroll Not the Culture Even though we have never experienced a viral contagion on the scale of this pandemic before, we have, in fact, recently experienced a similar business interruption called the Great Recession of 2008. We…
Ninth Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Construction Market Bracing for Long-Term Disruption Two things are required to support the construction market: The need for something to be built and the ability and willingness…