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Originally Posted by jIMOh
When will the government learn  low rates got us into this situation, maybe higher rates will get us out? |
It's not just low rates that got us into it.
It was a combination of low rates, careless lending practices and reckless products like nothing-down, interest only ARMs.
If they stuck to more "conventional" funding of fixed-rate mortgages for decent credit risks, much of this wouldn't happen. Yes, home prices would have risen some because most people define what they can "afford" in terms of monthly payment rather than price... but it wouldn't have been nearly the toxic mess that occurred in the last several years.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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