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US 30yr Mortgage Rate Rises To Near 6%
2022-08-24
[CONFOUNDEDINTEREST.NET] Baby, let me take you home is getting more difficult as mortgage rates approach 6%.

The National Association of Realtors’ Homebuyer Affordability Index for fixed-rate mortgages is now at the lowest reading since 2006 and the peak of the 2005-2007 housing bubble that burst catastrophically.

The reason? The Federal Reserve, in their attempt to put out the inflation fire (caused by 1) excessive monetary stimulus since late 2008, 2) rampant Federal spending and 3) Biden’s green energy
... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results...
policies, driving up prices.
Posted by:Fred

#7  My first home mortgage was over 16%. Refinanced a couple years later when the rates went down six points. Did that again a few years later when it went to just under six, and thought we were golden.

Always paid more than the minimum, which came right off the principal with no penalties.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-08-24 18:24  

#6  Do not give them ideas Skid! Next thing you know they will nationalize cemeteries and charge monthly maintenance/utility fees.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-08-24 14:24  

#5  Grave sites?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-08-24 13:06  

#4  Seriously, what do we own outright of value now that isn't taxed and or Federal/State/County/City controls and subjected to confiscation, if taxes, fee's, permits or whatever they invent isn't paid?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-08-24 08:53  

#3  "You will own nothing and be happy"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-24 07:48  

#2  ReFi'ed from 3.25 to 5.5 to pay off C-19/22 Hospital bills.


If the Coup wants to buy votes for Mid-Terms and the upcoming General Election?

Simply offer to retroactively lower interest rates for 1 Private home loan under $200K (non-business/non-investment) to 1% over the Fed Rate.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-08-24 07:42  

#1  Took mine out in '94, it was 10%.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-24 07:19  

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