Posted on 08/30/2023 7:26:31 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a
I wonder if Biden will use his writeboard to brag about the 30-year mortgage rate rising 157% under his economic Reign on Error? Aka, Bidenomics.
Mortgage applications increased 2.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 25, 2023.
The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 2.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 1 percent compared with the previous week. The Refinance Index increased 3 percent from the previous week and was 28 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 2 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 0.3 percent compared with the previous week and was 27 percent lower than the same week one year ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at confoundedinterest.net ...
The one key problem in the failed concept of Bidenomics....is that certain key fields are paired up. A good example, goals revolve around the environmental numbers, job creation, and ‘equity’. In a normal economic system....none of these three would connect, yet this idea seems to say that you can focus goals around the middle class and invent successful numbers.
The Biden plan: Print more money. A LOT more money.
What’s the default rate?
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