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What The Fed Reserve Is Going To Do & What Next Pres Should Do To Invigorate US Economy

• LewRockwell.Com - Bill Sardi

There are sources that tell us precisely what is going to happen:  The Congressional Budget Office and a few carefully selected other sources.

US lending institutions and the entire financial industry as well as U.S. companies are hooked on near-free money issued by the nation's central bank.  This has created many zombie banks and companies as well as a stock market that is so propped one begins to wonder if any of these entities can survive an interest rate increase.  [CBS Marketwatch July 31, 2015]

The Congressional Budget Office says…

Interest rates on money the Federal Reserve central bank issues to lender banks is going to gradually rise from 0.0-0.2% to ~3.5%.  The Congressional Budget Office says this is going to happen in the second-half of 2015.  That is the feared moment when the financial industry has to suddenly be weaned off of free money.  [Congressional Budget Office]

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This means that lenders will add two or three percentage points to that when they lend money to buy houses and automobiles, so consumers are likely to start paying 5.5-6.5% on a newly issued home mortgage instead of the prevailing 3.92%.

That will have serious repercussions in the housing market that will finally fall flat.  The housing market has been falsely propped, first by no down-payment loans, then by low interest loans, then by those elite members of the financial classes who benefited from all this free money who bought $1+ million homes.  Unless incomes begin to rise, the housing market is toast.


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