Saturday, November 15, 2025

Fifty Year Mortgages? An awful idea.

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The WSJ editorial team nailed it today: 

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/50-year-mortgage-donald-trump-bill-pulte-housing-prices-5ca2417b?st=N1W1Cu&reflink=article_email_share 

My online comment...

"Have we learned nothing from 2008-2009? This is a bad idea and a dangerous one. The easy answer of pile on more debt to improve affordability, hastens another meltdown. We don't have a demand problem, it's a supply problem."


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