Showing posts with label debt and debtors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt and debtors. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Fifty Year Mortgages? An awful idea.

Freepik photo
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."


-
Labels: ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

The Overpriced Fiduciary. Revisiting How We Pay for Financial Advice (first published 3/20/2026 on Substack)

  The Overpriced Fiduciary. Revisiting How We Pay for Financial Advice The practice of paying a financial advisor a percentage of assets...

  • Is that what heaven looks like?
    L ast week before leaving Thailand (more about that trip shortly), I learned that my brief reader's comment about financial advisory ser...
  • Hashbrowns and physics
    By George Webb Corporation - http://www.georgewebb.com 1. For three consecutive mornings, I've happily eaten breakfast at George Webb , ...
  • Winter Whispers
    Pointed, brilliant drifts of snow pierce the evening of winter. Curving upward they arch to a luminous, cyclopean moon. A guest, humble, I s...