Marc Rapport via The Motley Fool financial news, views, and information platform published an article earlier this week on “7 Real Estate Trends to Megawatch Over the Next Decade And How to Profit From Them.” MHProNews periodically references information, including transcripts from earnings calls in the manufactured housing industry, that are published by “the Fool.” Rapport cited a “housing bubble” in his article, as well as other trends he sees. “Regardless of how you choose to invest in real estate, you have to pay attention to what’s happening in the big world around us.” True enough, a principle that causes MHProNews to look at issues in the “big world around us” beyond manufactured housing. Examples of recent examples of that prudent principle of looking at the “big world around us” at work here in MHProNews and/or MHLivingNews include the following.

 

Russian Disinformation? CNN and WND Report on “World Government Summit,” Joe Biden Address to Business Roundtable on “the New World Order;” plus Sunday Weekly Headlines Review

Ex-President Obama ‘Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F-ck Things Up’-Biden, Democrats Take Hits, Grim 2022 Midterm Poll Update as Housing, Inflation, Border, Ukraine, Policy Failures Mount

Graphics, Lists of 10 Richest Men, Women in World, Tech & Finance Include MH Connected Warren Buffett, Bill Gates But Some Names May be Missing from Bloomberg, Forbes Lists; plus MHVille Market Update

Durham Probe – ‘Smoking Gun’ Message ‘Conspiracy’ to ‘Steal Election’ by Clinton Campaign, Democratic Operatives, Comes on Heels of FEC Fines of Clinton and Democrats; plus MHVille Markets Update

 

“Regardless of how you choose to invest in real estate, you have to pay attention to what’s happening in the big world around us. Change is always afoot, and when we’re talking about a long-term commitment, it’s particularly important to watch the trends and then make your best interpretation of how they’ll affect your current and future investments,” said Rapport. The Fool says he is a “Long-Term Buy to Hold” investor who is currently invested in the following stocks, using their ticker symbols. “GOOGL, AMZN, CRIMX, FKALX, FBDIX, FKDNX, FMTIX, TFSIX, FRDPX, CISGX, VSOIX, VRP, GNL, OHI, VNQ, STOR, IIPR, NLY, ARE, VIPSX, MPW, TIP, BXMT, VNQ, TRNO, PLNHF, DLR, MMM, SR, VIAC, ADC.”

Per Rapport 4.5.2022 article on the Fool, “Here are a few thoughts on some of those megatrends and why it might be a good time to keep a “megawatch” on them.”

1) Watch rates with interest

• “As the chart above shows, it took a long time for interest rates to get as low as they did in late 2021 before they began their rapid rise this year.”
• “For example, a monthly payment of $1,073 on a 30-year note at 2.99% rises to $1,184 at 3.99%, and we’re already there. Watch this figure closely. The effects will be profound, both on your personal investments and the markets you’re watching. When it’s more expensive to borrow, it’s more expensive to build and expand and manufacture, and all those costs get passed on to the end user.”
• MHProNews take? True and true.

2) Keep an eye on affordability, wages, employment, and foreclosures

• “The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently calculated that every $1,000 jump in home prices pushes about 150,000 households out of the market.”
• “Other reports say that about 60% of renters can’t afford to buy a home in their own city.”
• “Meanwhile, employment levels and wages are rising but, for the latter, not as fast as inflation in many places.”
• MHProNews take on the above bullets? The first is accurate. The second fails to account for manufactured homes but is still broadly relevant. The third above is also accurate.

3) Watching for a bubble 

• “House prices continue to rise at a breakneck pace even as sales levels begin to show some signs of slowing down.”
• “This can’t go on forever, of course, and some Fed economists have just released a report that speaks to how fundamentals have become disconnected from price hikes, i.e., a bubble.” …
• “While the consensus continues that the fundamentals now are much different from the Great Recession housing collapse, that may just mean the deflation in prices and sales will be more gradual.”
• “The best investing advice here might be to avoid paying too much in overheated markets.”
• MHProNews has been sounding the alarm on such points for months and/or over a year. Some examples are as shown.

Frank Rolfe, Dave Reynolds – Manufactured Housing Institute Members – Raise Alarm – is “Mobile Home Park Industry Over-Heating?”

Is Wave of Acquisitions and Capital Chasing Manufactured Home Communities – a.k.a. “Mobile Home Parks” – Signaling a Marketing Overheating?

Reports About Housing Slowdown Grow-National Association of Realtors, Homebuilders vs. RV Data, What Manufactured Housing Professionals Could Learn from Facts and Evidence; plus MHVille Markets

Skyline Champion (SKY) Plunges Nearly 20 Percent, Are Fundamentals Sound? What are Housing Headlines Behind SKY’s Fall? Plus, Sunday Weekly Manufactured Home Headline Recap & Analysis

‘Big Wall Street Firms Role’ in ‘Skyrocketing Rents’ Median Rents Hit New Record ‘Lack of New Construction’ ‘Corporate Landlords’ Contributing Causes – Facts, Video, Analysis; plus MHVille Markets

Burying Lead? Manufactured Home Community (MHC) Research Reveals MHC Owners Losing Money While Roaring Biden-Era Inflation, Predatory Operators Pressure Residents; plus MHVille Markets

4) Remember: location, location, location

• “Remember, growing numbers of people can live pretty much anywhere and do their jobs remotely. That’s only going to become even truer as broadband access quietly and inexorably pushes further into rural areas. Already, small and midsize cities across the heartland offer a much lower cost of living, and the schools, housing options, and other amenities make one think they won’t be overlooked much longer. Investors might want to get ahead of that curve now.”
• “By the way, Equity Residential’s chief executive officer already sees trouble ahead and has sold off a lot of the company’s Sun Belt apartments because of what he sees as a coming supply glut.” Equity Residential is Sam Zell led sister-brand to manufactured housing’s Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS).
• Rapport once more has made some useful points. Several of these trends could be quite useful for manufactured housing. Sadly, given problematic leadership by the post-production/umbrella Arlington, VA based ‘trade group’ called the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), those trends are quite apparently not being properly tapped. Evidence for that are recent and previous announcements by third-parties to this platform with prior apparent ties to MHI that have publicly signaled their dissatisfaction with MHI ‘leadership.’

‘Announcing!’ ‘Manufactured Community Owners’ Association of America’ ‘Finally Bringing Fight To Manufactured Home Community Sector of the Industry’ – plus Sunday Weekly Manufactured Housing Headlines Review  

Construction News Today-‘MHI Does Not Represent Entire Industry’ Manufactured Housing Assoc Slams Manufactured Housing Institute on Energy Rule, Homestar’s Jayar Daily Redux; MHVille Markets

5) Follow the supply chain

• “It’s not just people moving inland — companies are, too. The supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic helped accelerate that trend. One good example of a market where that’s happening is in Columbus, Ohio. There, Intel just announced a $20 billion chip-plant project in the far exurbs that will have a strong ripple effect in all kinds of real estate for miles around.”
• While this point has merit, it also glosses over much that MHProNews has kept our readers informed on. Some examples are as shown.

U.S. Senate Banking Testimony -‘How Private Equity Landlords are Changing the Housing Market’– Private Equity Stakeholder Project Hits News–More MHC Development Wanted; plus MHVille Markets

Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) Legal Defense of Suit by ELS Residents Brought by FeganScott Class Action Focused Attorneys – Case No 2:21-CV-14492-DMM Facts and Analysis

SEC on ESG-Risk Looms; 37 Percent of Democrats, 62 Percent of Independents say America on ‘Wrong Track,’ Discontent with Biden, Democrat Controlled Congress Ahead of Midterms; plus MHVille Markets

6) There will always be an aging population

• “It’s old news that the boomer generation is aging and in growing need of medical care and senior-living options.”
• MHProNews analysis: again, true enough. But Rapport doesn’t note how manufactured housing producers, retailers, REITs, etc. could be poised to tap into those trends. About half of all manufactured home buyers, per MHI, are 50+.  Plus, the younger generations that are currently “priced out” are often qualified to buy a manufactured home. These are reasons why MHI’s so-called image campaign has clearly not cut it.

 

 

• The top March reports dig deeper into several of those topics.

March 2022 – What Manufactured Housing Pros, Federal Officials, Researchers Wanted to Know About Events Related to Manufactured Home Industry, plus MHVille Market Update

7) Is a (sea) changing world the ultimate megatrend?

• “Miami is wrestling with the idea of building a 20-foot seawall. A major South Carolina hospital has decided to move off the vulnerable peninsula in Charleston Harbor. Tropical systems batter our coasts with growing intensity. Water shortages threaten the fast-growing Southwest. Wildfires grow worse every year in a growing list of states.”
• “You get the picture. If you think these are all a growing reality, these are megatrends you need to follow. They can help inform where you want to live, not to mention invest. For instance, maybe a small town near the Great Lakes and still close to major transportation infrastructure might be the ticket.”
• MHProNews analysis in brief for Rapport’s #7? Hyped and flat WRONG climate alarmism.  It has been DECADES since some of the alarmist claims were first made. Weather is no more an issue now than before. Even if ‘man made climate change’ were real, the U.S.A. can’t change this trend solo, because China and India are building coal-fire plants and pollute far more than America does. Examples of why this may be popular, but mistaken are shown in the graphics and reports linked below.

‘Vlad The Impaler’ – Ukraine, USA, EU, NATO, Oil, Green Energy, Oligarchs, George Soros, Paltering, Affordable Housing 2022 – Costly Facts You Have And Haven’t Been Told

Again, more are worked into the report on the TampaFP and the briefer summary, linked below.

‘Tapestry of Lies’ Putin-Led Russian Ukraine War – New Reports, Fact Packed TampaFP Op-Ed Reveal U.S. Woes & Opportunity

The bottom line? Rapport has raised several fascinating points, but they are mixed in with some politically correct items while completing missing factors about manufactured housing. To investors or researchers seeking to learn more, see the reports linked below.

 

Why is Manufactured Housing Underperforming During an Affordable Housing Crisis? Legal Updates, Reports Explore Concerns

 

 

The slide in most manufactured home stocks noted in the headline is part of our market recap graphics, shown further below. 

Programming Note: As promised, the report below fulfills this programming announcement from earlier this week.

Programming Notice 2: as promised, this report fulfills this teaser from earlier this week on 7 megatrends facts and analysis.

Graphics, Lists of 10 Richest Men, Women in World, Tech & Finance Include MH Connected Warren Buffett, Bill Gates But Some Names May be Missing from Bloomberg, Forbes Lists; plus MHVille Market Update

Next up is our daily business news recap of yesterday evening’s market report, related left-right headlines, and manufactured housing connected equities.

The Business Daily Manufactured Home Industry Connected Stock Market Updates.  Plus, Market Moving Left leaning CNN and Right-leaning (Newsmax) Headlines Snapshot. While the layout of this daily business report has been evolving over time, several elements of the basic concepts used previously are still the same. For instance. The headlines that follow below can be reviewed at a glance to save time while providing insights across the left-right media divide. Additionally, those headlines often provide clues as to possible ‘market-moving’ news items.

 

Market Indicator Closing Summaries – Yahoo Finance Closing Tickers on MHProNews…

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 4.6.2022

• Raising the bar
• Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing, Thursday, March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
• The Fed is ready to move faster on interest rates, according to last month’s minutes
• Now even Fed doves sound like hawks
• Janet Yellen warns of ‘enormous’ economic repercussions from war in Ukraine
• Western countries will dump 60 million more barrels of emergency oil on the market
• Tensions with Beijing throw spotlight on Taiwan’s unique role in global tech
• 87-year-old Alan Patricof on why he’s going to Burning Man
• Europe is finally coming after Russia’s energy
• Russian car sales have collapsed since the invasion of Ukraine
• GM, Honda are teaming up to build a $30,000 electric car
• Elon Musk made another $1 billion from his Twitter stake. As if he needs it
• H&M says you can compost its new line of baby clothes
• McDonald’s is bringing back a fan-favorite menu item
• Lawmaker Blasts Big Oil CEOs at hearing: ‘You are ripping off the American people’
• The Central Bank of Russia on Neglinnaya street in Moscow, Russia on March 30, 2022.
• US pushes Russia to the brink of default
• Active pump jacks increase pressure to draw oil toward the surface at the South Belridge Oil Field on February 26, 2022, in unincorporated Kern County, California, approximately 141 miles (227 km) northwest of Los Angeles, California.
• Short sellers are starting to bet against America’s economy
• THE WORLD’S RICHEST PEOPLE
• Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk delivered an eagerly-awaited update on SpaceX’s Starship, a prototype rocket the company is developing for crewed interplanetary exploration.
• Elon Musk is worth more than twice Warren Buffett
• Musk trolls Bezos over billionaire status
• India’s Gautam Adani joins the centibillionaires club
• Mackenzie Scott has given $3.8 billion since June
• The world’s 500 richest people got $1 trillion richer in 2021
• ENTERTAINMENT
• NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 09: Comedian Louis C.K. attends the FX Networks Upfront screening of “Fargo” at SVA Theater on April 9, 2014 in New York City.  (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
• Comedians fire back after Louis CK Grammy win
• ‘Dr. Strange’ will show how theaters fare in summer
• Why Selena Gomez hasn’t been on Instagram
• Fox attacks Disney as ‘woke’ company
• See Ewan McGregor return as Obi-Wan

Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – evening of 4.6.2022

• GOP Already Lining Up Hunter Biden Oversight If It Gets Gavels
• Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Pentagon Says Ukraine Can ‘Absolutely’ Win the War
• Pentagon Says Ukraine Can ‘Absolutely’ Win the War
• GOP Leader McCarthy Taking Delegation to Poland This Week
• US Targets Putin’s Daughters, Russian Banks in New Sanctions
• Hungary’s Orban Asks Putin for Immediate Cease-Fire
• US Charges Oligarch, Dismantles Cybercrime Operation
• Biden Links Atrocities in Bucha to New Russia Sanctions
• Lithuanian Filmmaker Shot Dead by Russians in Mariupol
• Ukraine Leader to UN Security Council: No More Russia Veto
• Pope Kisses Ukrainian Flag, Condemns ‘the Massacre of Bucha’
• Russians Control 60% of Rubizhne in East Ukraine: Gov
• Putin Ally Medvedev Vows Battle on Property Seizures
• More Western Sanctions to Hit Russia After Bucha Killings
• More Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Newsmax TV
• AG: About to See a ‘Tidal Wave of Illegal Immigration’ | video
• Cammack to Newsmax: Disney on ‘Wrong Side of History’ on Florida Rights Law | video
• Van Drew: Biden Administration Underestimated Ukraine | video
• Murphy to Newsmax: Time to Defund AOC, Squad’s Personal Security Detail | video
• Poroshenko: If You Want Safe World, ‘De-Putinize Russia
• Waltz: US Must Train Ukraine’s Military to Use Lethal Aid | video
• Kellyanne Conway: Documentary Shows How Zuckerberg Helped Rig 2020 Election | video
• More Newsmax TV
• Newsfront
• Film Academy Moves Up Discussion of Will Smith Oscars Attack
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has moved up its meeting to discuss possible sanctions against best actor winner Will Smith for hitting presenter Chris Rock to Friday, a letter from the group’s president said…. [Full Story]
• ‘Amazon, Here We Come,’ Biden Cheers US Union Drive
• President Joe Biden sang praises for organized labor once again [Full Story]
• Pentagon Says Ukraine Can ‘Absolutely’ Win the War
• The Pentagon said on Wednesday it assessed that Ukraine could win the [Full Story]
• Scalise Echoes WSJ: Dems ‘Have Amnesia’ on Limiting Oil Supply
• As President Joe Biden attempted to spin the “Putin price hike,” Rep. [Full Story]
• Elon Musk Tops Forbes’ World Billionaires List For First Time
• Tesla’s Elon Musk on Wednesday topped the Forbes’ World Billionaires [Full Story]
• Fed Signals More Aggressive Steps to Fight Inflation
• Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more [Full Story]
• AG Garland, Commerce Secretry Raimondo Test Positive for COVID-19
• Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and [Full Story]
• GOP Leader McCarthy Leading Delegation to Poland This Week
• A bipartisan delegation led by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, [Full Story]
• Boris Johnson Says Transgender Women Shouldn’t Compete in Women’s Sports
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said transgender women [Full Story]
• US Experts Discuss COVID Boosters for the Fall and Future
• While many Americans are trying to move on with their lives after two [Full Story]
• Yellen: Russia Invasion Will Have ‘Enormous Economic Repercussions’
• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned a House panel Wednesday that [Full Story]
• Ex-Trump Officials Urge Texas Gov. Abbott to Declare Migrant ‘Invasion’
• Former Trump administration officials have urged Gov. Greg Abbott, [Full Story]
• Biden Extends Pause on Student Loan Repayments Through Aug. 31
• S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration was [Full Story]
• Billy Crystal: Will Smith, Chris Rock Incident ‘Was an Assault’
• Billy Crystal has described Will Smith hitting Chris Rock at the 94th [Full Story]
• Bobby Rydell, 60s Teen Idol and ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ Star, Dies at 79
• Bobby Rydell, a pompadoured heartthrob of early rock ‘n roll who was [Full Story]
• Biden’s Rumored Nuclear Modernization Cuts ‘Projects Weakness’
• Rumored plans by the Biden administration to cut back the nation’s [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• Lil Nas X Responds to Greg Kelly on Lewd Claims
• Lil Nas X was a little upset after Newsmax host Greg Kelly scolded [Full Story]
• Second COVID Booster Effective in Older Adults But Protection Wanes Quickly: Study
• A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine lowered rates of [Full Story]
• Poll: Nearly 70% of Americans Worry About Nuclear War
• Nearly 70% of Americans fear that Russia’s unprovoked attack on [Full Story]
• Ukrainian War Refugees Beginning to Return
• The thousands that clogged the roads into Kyiv mirrored a bigger [Full Story]
• Musk Aside, Twitter Already Testing an ‘Edit’ Button
• Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is working on a way for users to edit [Full Story]
• South Korea’s President-Elect Wants US Nuclear Bombers, Submarines to Return
• Advisers to South Korea’s president-elect sought redeployment of U.S. [Full Story]
• Biden’s Strategic Oil Reserve Gamble Puts ‘National Security at Risk’
• Oil and gas experts warn that President Joe Biden’s decision to tap [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• JetBlue Offers $3.6 Billion for Spirit, Outbidding Frontier
• JetBlue Airways said Tuesday it made an unsolicited $3.6 billion bid [Full Story]
• US OKs $95 Million Sale of Defense Support to Taiwan
• The U.S. government has approved a sale of up to $95 million worth of [Full Story]
• Burr Presses Biden’s CDC on Reasons For Rescinding Title 42
• The controversy surrounding the Biden administration’s recent repeal [Full Story]
• Australia, UK, US Alliance to Develop Hypersonic Missiles
• The United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced Tuesday [Full Story]
• Gaetz Trashes Defense Secretary for ‘Blowing a Lot of Calls Lately’
• While President Joe Biden has done little to nothing to hold the [Full Story] | video
• Twitter Moves to Limit Reach of Russian Govt Accounts
• Twitter announced Tuesday it was introducing new measures against [Full Story]
• Obama on Midterms: Dems Have ‘Got a Story to Tell, Just Got to Tell It’
• Former President Barack Obama confidently told reporters on his way [Full Story]
• Arizona Court Declines GOP Request to Invalidate Mail Voting
• The Arizona Supreme Court declined Tuesday to consider a request by [Full Story]
• Finance
• Fed Signals More Aggressive Steps to Fight Inflation
• Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months – actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy…. [Full Story]
• New York AG Asks Banks to End Overdraft Fees
• Fed to Phase in $95 Billion Monthly Balance Sheet Runoff
• Russia Mulls More Media Restrictions Amid Ukraine War
• Easy Russia Sanctions Exhausted, US and Allies Face Economic Bite
• More Finance
• Health
• Why COVID-19 Cases Haven’t Soared in the US, Yet
• The cases of COVID-19 have risen dramatically in Europe and China due to highly transmissible variants of the omicron virus. In the U.K., a recent analysis by the Health Security Agency found that the BA.2 subvariant of omicron is growing 80% faster than BA.1, the virus…… [Full Story]
• Study Finds Pets May Share Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria With Owners
• Coffee is Good for You: 8 Ways to Keep it That Way
• FDA Says Current COVID Vaccines Not ‘Well-matched’ Against BA.2 Variant
• Reducing Salt Intake Helps Heart Patients’ Quality of Life, But Not Hospitalizations

 

MHProNews has pioneered in our profession several reporting elements that keep our regular and attentive readers as arguably the best informed in the manufactured housing industry. Among the items shared after ‘every business day’ (when markets are open) is our left-right headline recap summary. At a glance in two to three minutes, key ‘market moving’ news items are covered from left-of-center CNN Business and right-of-center Newsmax. “We Provide, You Decide.” ^© Additionally, MHProNews provides expert commentary and analysis on the issues that others can’t or won’t cover that help explain why manufactured housing has been underperforming during the Berkshire era while an affordable housing crisis and hundreds of thousands of homeless in America rages on. These are “Industry News, Tips, and Views Pros Can Use” ^© features and others made and kept us the runaway #1 in manufactured housing trade publisher for a dozen years and counting. 

 

Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Equities Closing Tickers

Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
                          • NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
                          • NOTE: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of  the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.

Manufactured Home Communities (a.k.a. ‘Mobile Home Parks’ – SIC) – Exploring UMH Properties; Fellow Manufactured Housing Institute Member Yes! Communities Suits and Settlements; plus MH Markets Updates

Clayton-21st Storm Watch – Sinatra’s Summer Wind Blows Early? – Manufactured Housing Moat Breach – Manufactured Home Values Increasing Faster than Site-Built – Case for Something New in 2022

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  • 2022 …Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21^st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory-built housing industry suppliers.
    · LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
    · AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses. For insights from third-parties and clients about our publisher, click here.
    Enjoy these ‘blast from the past’ comments. MHProNews. MHProNews – previously a.k.a. MHMSM.com – has celebrated our 11th year of publishing and have completed over a dozen years of serving the industry as the runaway most-read trade media.

Sample Kudos over the years…

It is now 12+ years and counting…

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By L.A. “Tony” Kovach – for MHProNews.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship along with numerous awards in history. There have been several awards and honors and also recognition in manufactured housing. For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He’s a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com. This article reflects the LLC’s and/or the writer’s position and may or may not reflect the views of sponsors or supporters.