• CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    You are still assuming that rates will increase to that level.

    Look at this. Interest rates haven’t been as high as 12% since roughly 1987. That’s more than 2 decades, and it’s been almost 2 decades since 2008, where rates were already falling before the housing market crash. 2008 saw some of the lowest housing costs of the 21st century so far because of the amount of foreclosures. And yet, look at that, interest rates were around 6-7% and dropped to about 5%. Of note, the historical average is 7.70%, not the 12% you insist upon going back to.

    Neither one of us know what the future holds, but taking modern economics into account shows that rates are unlikely to get high enough to have that make a meaningful difference.

    Housing in the 70’s and 80’s wasn’t cheap because of the interest rates. It was cheap because housing was rapidly expanding into suburbs, a suburbification. This is why rates could actually be that high, because the loans were comparatively smaller. You are confusing correlation and causation.

    Look at this one:

    Housing costs at 12% were not meaningfully cheaper. They were still slowly rising.

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      2 days ago

      I do not assume that. sigh.

      What I said was that if rates go up a lot, prices go down.

      Edit: correct the second for inflation.

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        They will not go up enough to make your claim valid, full stop. It has never happened in the way you’ve been claiming, so you can’t even point to the historical data to back yourself up, it seems.

        Inflation is not something that needs to be included in this, and it only hurts your case further. Your original claim is that if interest rates go up (now you’re saying “a lot”, but it doesn’t change anything), home prices go down.

        Well, in the 80’s, interest rates went way up, but housing prices didn’t go down, even in the short time period where inflation isn’t going to meaningfully be a factor. It went up at the a slow rate. So, you’re grasping at straws now (“correct the second for inflation” even though it didn’t magically make the housing prices go down in any way that matters) seemingly because you didn’t understand basic econmics in the real world and dug yourself too deep.

        Are you going to provide any sources for your bold claim? Any amount of data? Anything? Or are you just going to keep talking in circles and not providing anything of substance?

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          2 days ago

          Lol, basic economics 101, supply and demand is not enough? It happened in Sweden, it happened in France, guess usa is magic after all.

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            2 days ago

            The US isn’t magic, it’s corrupt and unregulated. Supply and demand only applies in your freshman econmics class, not here, as you can very clearly see on the data I provided. You have provided nothing, not anything, to back yourself up. How embarrassing.

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                2 days ago

                Lmao, nice, still not providing anything to back up your claims huh? It would have been less embarrassing for you to just admit that you have no idea how economics work past supply and demand, and yet, here we are!

                I have already figured it out, and that’s why I bought a home at 3.2% interest.

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                  2 days ago

                  You still haven’t figured out I’m not saying you should take a mortgage at 12% today?

                  😂🤣😂🤣 You must be trolling!

                  Anyways good for you, but it was not the point, whatever 🤪🤷🏼‍♀️

                  • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone
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                    2 days ago

                    Keep moving the goalposts, sure. The claim of yours that is entirely incorrect is that high interest rates bring down home prices. They have never done that in the US.

                    The emoji spam is a sign that you have completely lost the plot. Add it to the embarrassment pile.