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I tell normies that 70-95% of US mortgages are backed by the government and all I get is…silence. Why?

“You must be missing something. That can’t be true. If that were true, I’d know. It’d be all over the news. People would be up in arms. The government wouldn’t allow the government to do that.”

It would break their brains to accept that the main indicator of success in America, homeownership, is a government-sponsored fugazzi.

The Fed itself owns $2.3T of MBS. Good morning. nostr:note1sstxt02ndsrj7p4fu3tqguntgrkzfyhvx4smasndsj0jete5levqpnde5a

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Daniel 1y ago

It’s the enormity of it that always gets me.

Toxic Bitcoiner 1y ago

Colby Serpa 1y ago

😢

Daniel 1y ago

I think people can wake up. It is a great awakening, but it’s so hard accepting how big and corrupt and awful it’s been for so long that most people do have to be kicked in the balls - even bitcoiners.

Toxic Bitcoiner 1y ago

I got piledrived by Bitcoin, that seemed to do the trick.

to be decided 1y ago

What's the exact issue with this though?

It enables homeowners to continue to consume who otherwise wouldn't be able to, because their home is actually too expensive for them?

So it stimulates consumption based on borrowed money?

Toxic Bitcoiner 1y ago

IIRC, as it stands, Freddie would also honor the rate of the 1st mortgage for the 2nd, which will in many cases likely be lower than the current market rate. Aka stimulus targeted to homeowners (boomers, the biggest voting block) at the expense of everyone else. Even absent that rate parity, it’s still State intervention in a market. The loans are backed by the State, which gives Fannie, Freddie, etc a perverse incentive to issue riskier loans. Much like student loans. Bubblicious.