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Originally Posted by petegz28
Home sales and the related are starting to take a huge hit which is actually good. High gas prices are doing what the Fed didn't, wouldn't or couldn't do, which is create some demand destruction.
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That's the highest the 30 year mortgage rate has been since the GFC. In a matter of a few months from the lowest it'd ever been. It's higher than we got in the 2018 tightening cycle where they took FFR to 2.75%(?) - not sure on the exact number.
I think the Feds rhetoric is definitely slowing demand and, sadly, I think if you flip that chart upside down it's my stock portfolio. Psychology is important for both the economy and stock market and I'm seeing recession references a lot of late. Nobody likes losing wealth
I did get a .10% boost to my savings account though! hooray