30-year mortgage rates are near 8% with excellent credit. Interest rates have climbed for the past three months straight. The Fed is considering another interest rate increase for November and December, possibly pushing rates up to 8.5% or even 9%. The reasoning is that higher interest rates will "slow down inflation".
Home sales are at a 13-year low. Factor in the higher cost of insurance and the fact that property taxes are going up to unaffordable levels and the very high cost of labor and materials for home construction... and you have a real estate market that's going to crater.
I personally know several homeowners that had their homes listed for sale, but have removed them from the market in the past 2 months. They will wait and hold on to what they have for now. One real estate agent mentioned to a couple that they should keep their house off the market until at least middle of next year and then decide based on market conditions.
I'm suggesting that the U.S. economy is a three legged stool... and one of those legs is housing and private & commercial real estate. If it fails, the economy goes into a deep recession at best.
Central banking caused %99 of these problems, but your right. We can’t ease off the heroin. In 2008 Ron Paul said a hard fast crash is better than endless bailouts. He said the system is going down and the longer we can kick the worse it’ll be. He said a prolonged slow bailout bail in, could destroy civilization. At least with a hard fast crash over 6mths to 1year. People have enough in savings to local support to get through. Problem is….. stretch that out into 5 years 10 years and society may never return.
Look at what the imf had done to the 3rd world. Constant debt, loans, interests. They’ll never get out. If all the debt on this planet was paid off, the system would crash. Technically, there’s more debt than money so we can never come close to paying off the debt. It’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s over.