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A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

They can pry my 2.6% mortgage rate out of my cold, dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

2.3% checking in. I get constant mail to refil to my mortgage. Get fucked, chase.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are they absolute morons? "Ok pay me the expected difference up front, plus cover the income tax from that, and I'll do it. No? Fuck off then."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I suspect they are hoping im too stupid to know it’ll raise my monthly payment. I’m sure the gambit works often enough to make it worth their while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Literally trying to scam you.

[–] Feyr 3 points 8 months ago

Yo 2%, ain't gonna give you up!

[+] [email protected] -19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is just another example of how the government controlling money causes damage to all of us.

[–] ChicoSuave 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How? I don't get it.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for asking, as for the above example, the rates that people have on mortages are due to direct government manipulation of the interest rates and the money supply in general. As far as the other things, the big one would be the inflation they cause with harm to the middle class and poor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Quick question. How often did economic depressions occur before giving the government control over money and moving off the gold standard, and how many have we had since then?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is one of those unfalsifiable statements that is just used to mislead. I dont know how to answer the question.

Why are you okay with the rich getting richer at the direct expense of the poor and middle class?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Since moving off the gold standard there hasn't been a single economic depression. The quality of life for the poor and working class has skyrocketed. The government was able to fund big public works projects like dams, bridges, and highways.

You know who wants to get back on the gold standard? Oligarchs and Aristocrats. People who keep large amounts of liquid cash stored away absolutely hate that they can't hide their money somewhere and have it still be worth the same amount years later. They're forced to invest it to keep it productive.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

The problem is I dont know what you mean by a depression, we have had a series of recessions, and we are kicking the can down the road. And most of the dams and bridges were made BEFORE we went off the gold standard.

The problem is that you are just repeating modern monetary policy talking points and you probably will just hand wave away all these charts to some other random thing. But what you should notice is how poor people are having a hard time affording food and housing and other basic necessities. And to pretend that fiat currency isnt exactly what the rich want is just silly and makes no sense.