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Cheaper debt can be canceled out by higher prices. The fact that home values correlate so strongly with interest rates is very tellling. I think the net effect
by notSupplied 7y ago
Cheaper debt can be canceled out by higher prices. The fact that home values correlate so strongly with interest rates is very tellling. I think the net effect is simply higher asset prices and a greater portion of society's capital locked up in land. Easy money via debts is making every household more levered and more exposed without fundamentally improving access to housing.