Economics

Just 24% of homebuyers are currently first-time buyers, the lowest in at least 45 years.

End the FED!

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Thanks for sharing- will check it out.

Agree zirp created a massive bubble.  

Yet supply plays a role - especially regionally.

Here in New England often harder and harder to even find starter homes under 400K, and any new construction is 600-700K min - which is both a result of labor costs and land scarcity.

We’ve added maybe 5 % of the supply of day Dallas Fort Worth since the turn of the century.

I think if that was true, then we wouldn't see the market as bad as it is in states that can build, like Texas. Of course, you have the mortgage backed by the federal government, which pushes prices even higher. 

But the matter of the fact is that interest rates are historically low causing all assets to be in a bubble state

I have huge thread on this:

https://x.com/giacaglia/status/1228454107091853317

feel like supply issues are equally to blame here.

also curious what a post fed economy would look like, any reading you would suggest ?

Hard to imagine such a future.

I don't have a good pointer except obviously:

https://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

And I really love this post:

I don't have a good pointer except obviously:

https://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193

And I really love this post: https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

End the Fed. Spicy. I like it. 

Is there any good writing about ending the Fed? Been following Ron Paul on X and watching his videos, would love to learn more about the philosophical underpinning.