Home
sales are down with reports of a three year low. The reasons:
" . . . . higher mortgage interest rates and rising
home prices are impacting monthly contract activity." Quantitative Easing has kept interest rates
to historic lows, at a penalty to those
who are saving for retirement. In
September, this money supply will begin
to be reversed. Interest will increase and added pressure on the housing market will be the result.
The Fed has “printed” more than 4 trillion dollars above the normal flow of money, as it used its
powers in a process called “quantitative easing.” The hope was for a recovering economy that
would end the need for QE. Instead, the economy has not rebounded and the Fed has
run out of time for a sustainable continuation of play money - most
of it going into the stock market. In
three weeks, the Fed will begin winding
down his massive QE program. No one
really knows the final impact of this eventuality. Suffice it to say, Wall Street is the only part of the economy
that has done well over the past several years,
but its money supply is about to begin shrinking.
Most scary for the Democrats, are the coming mid-term elections, which may be impacted by the reality of this news.
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Factual information for this post comes from ZeroHedge.com; text by Midknight Review editor.
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