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Economy

no_hypocrisy

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1. Which is more important:

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jul 12, 2022, 07:36 AM

Jul 2022

A) Runaway inflation indefinitely
or
B) Short-term (hopefully) housing market woes. The markets will adjust. (Part of the reason why the price of homes have increased so much was the low interest rates, so it balanced out. You can't have hyper-inflated market prices with higher interest rates except for the buyers flush with money.)

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Rising interest rates are crushing the US housing market: Morning Brief [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 OP

Which is more important: no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 #1

Let me think here, housing prices rising 10-20% a year - NoMoreRepugs Jul 2022 #2

again, tell me something that I didn't know stopdiggin Jul 2022 #3

People forget that... VMA131Marine Jul 2022 #4

There's also this: investment groups are buying inventory, often with cash Auggie Jul 2022 #5

Median house price was 3x median income in the 80s, it's close to 7x now progree Jul 2022 #6

What a great DU sub-forum (group) WarGamer Jul 2022 #7

There's a Personal Finance and Investing group too. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 #8