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7.74% is the long term mortgage average
source:

Kiplinger: The Magic Mortgage Rate Number to Tip the Housing Market

The April jobs report was revised up by 11,000, from a gain of 147,000 to 158,000. May was revised up by 5,000 to 144,000.

One can almost see a pattern developing. Must be a Republican in the WH.

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They are too high. 6% mortgage rates are high.

7.74% is the long term average
source:

Kiplinger: The Magic Mortgage Rate Number to Tip the Housing Market

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“Po me” she mumbled with a mouth full of wagyu steak.

Rates are still below the historical typical average of 7.7%.

A 5%-6% interest/mortgage rate was historically considered 'the norm' going into the Carter years and 8%-10% was 'the norm' until the GWB real estate crisis that shrank interest/mortgage rates to historically low levels.

1920-34 near 6% mortgage average¹
1935-45 just under 4.5% mortgage average¹
1960 - 5.1% mortgage average²
1971 - 7.3% mortgage average¹
1980 - 13.7% mortgage average²
1981 - 16.6% to 18.45% mortgage average²
1990 - 10.1% mortgage average²
2000 - 8.1% mortgage average²
2010 - 4.7% mortgage average²
2020 - 3.1% mortgage average²

7.74% is the long term average³

sources:

¹Mortgage Rate History: Check Out These Charts from the Early 1900s

²Here's how much home prices have risen since 1950

³Kiplinger: The Magic Mortgage Rate Number to Tip the Housing Market

historic CPI Inflation calculator

Blood is thicker than water.

Money is thicker than blood.

Autocorrect causes enough havoc, so I have it turned off in browsers, smartphones, other software programs.

The last thing I need is a browser that is "designed to understand your intent, assist with tasks, and take actions".

Two more leftist Dem Senators?

How many more leftist Dem Representatives?

Canada 51 needs a lot more thought.

Add to all of this the fake Oval Office set that was in the WH ‘media room’ [basement].

$2.79 to $2.89 in NW Arkansas/US Hwy 412.

Walmart eggs $3.47/doz.

Interest rates are just now in the historical average range [7.7%].

Too many got too used to the cheap money of the the last 20 years.

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$2.59 to $2.79 in nw Arkansas per gasbuddy.com.

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Those judges better shape up or we’ll...

we’ll...

we’ll...

hold Congressional hearings!!!!!!

I have noticed recently that some of my pills [OTC and prescription] are significantly smaller.

Some are a quarter of a inch or smaller.

‘We be victims!’

They are plying for victim status.

Few want to listen to her complaining about how bad life is as she chows down on another wagyu.