Anyone who thinks the U.S. is in recovery should stop listening to the mainstream media and listen to John Williams. He heads up Shadowstats.com, and is one of the few economists who crunches the numbers to give unvarnished true statistics. Adjusted for real inflation of about 7%, Williams says, "GDP has plunged, and we have been bottom bouncing" ever since the financial crisis started. Williams says, "The next crash will be a lot worse (than 2008) because it will push us into the early stages of hyperinflation." He predicts this will happen "by the end of 2014" at the latest....
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Yup! Watch the bond market. It's in the largest bubble in over 200 years and WILL burst because ALL economic bubbles bursts. The sheep won't know what hit them. Bonds have an inverse relationship with rates so you know what that means
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ok, i guess the point went over your head. We aren't likely to get higher interest rates, without a very strong improvement in the economy... underwaterman says
My rate when I bought my second home ever in Phoenix, 16 years ago, was 7.25%... prices went up quite a bit after I bought it despite that rate... It was $103K. I'm buying another home in that area in two weeks, for $86.5K. Salaries struggling as they may, are still better today then they were 16 years ago. I hardly find the premise that "prices would collapse at 7% rates" convincing....
AND rates aren't going to be 7% until the economy is much better.
Good luck on your wishful thinking!
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Contrarian conjecture aside -- you're right, YUP1.
There will be no middle class income growth in America in the next decade. (Why would there be?)
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Yep, and we know where interest rates have been all these past years. That's the point.
If you are betting that interest rates will rise sifnificantly while wages stay stagnant, then you are betting on a very unusual event occurring.
Just so you understand that you are the one predicting against history.
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lol. US productivity continues to rise. The only reason there is no median income growth is because it's all going to the 1%. If Obama continues to make taxes more progressive, median income growth will return.
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The FED has pretty much admitted that they will keep rates low until things/unemployment gets better. The current QE, they didn't even set a time limit-they can buy junk for all of eternity. There is no risk in the market for the big players.
The only thing that can happen, is if the dam breaks and the flood is large enough to bury even the FED. While unlikely, it may happen-but chances are slim. I think we are stuck at these low rates for a long time.
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The Fed is the king of creating bubbles. The dam will break sooner or later.
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I think this will be one vital solution to the problem--more money definitely needs to trickle down. That is crucial.
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It is better to be the one who pees rather than the one who gets pissed on. How long can we get peed on before we get pissed off?
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underwaterman says
Ignore Kindergarden math and think more applied math.
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250 payment delta is basically 25 more hours of work a month or for a typical worker who works 168, it is 15% raise from $10.00 to 11.50 gets to the same result or some combo. That is the linear model where everything else stays the same, which will not.
As much as you believe 7.5% interest will come from some economic collapse, chances are it is due to the red hot econcomy. In which case, I expect people to have way more money than they currently do now in addition to demand for wage escalation beyond 15%. More people will have way more money on your scenerio. Wages is only a small reason that explains why housing price is what it is, wealth is the dominant reason.
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KarlRoveIsScum says
Bill Gross says gold is leveraged and will get killed too. I say cash is king because it is a store of value and it is also LIQUID.
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I read everything, doens't mean I need to believe it or come to the same conclusion. Huge difference. Your experts are gold bugs and they sell the same story told 10 different ways.
Believe it or not, I argued with AZrob quite a bit in 2010-2011 and disagreed on a lot of things.
Just telling it the way I see it.
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In a global environment I am not confident in the latter statement. Unemployment will drop but wages will likely not rise much.
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Since the US is the reserve currency we don't have to, although we should, downsize the financial industry. Only if the people refuse their products will it be forced to downsize.
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no, you call me ignorant and stupid because you are a jealous asshole who lost money on housing, and likely will lose more on silver....
that chart of yours is salaries adjusted for inflaiton; However, your future mortgage payment is not adjusted for inflation, and yes, salaries in real terms are a good deal higher today then they were 16 years ago;
16 years ago, i bought a 3/2 in north Phoenix for $103K, with interest rates at 7.25%. [sold in 2005 for $176K... ]
In 2 weeks, i am buying a 4/2 in the same neighborhood for $86K... If you think rates gong back to 7.25% will crash that home's value, when it would have been worth more 16 years ago at precisely those interest rates, you are even stupider than I thought...
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Everyone understands the effect that higher interest rates has on mortgage payments. Believe me, we get it.
But we also understand the historical relationship between interest rates and wage inflation. Like I said earlier, interest rates don't rise and fall randomly--they move in response to macroeconomic factors. And those factors historically have also had an effect on wage inflation.
So, for you to completely ignore the historical relationship shows your ignorance.
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It's another high jacked real estate thread by underwaterman. underwaterman says
I've yet to hear about your profitable investments, yet you want us all to tell you ours in great detail. So far all I've ever read you say is Real Estate bad, gold good, because Glenn Beck tells me all these other people have made fortunes from gold.
That's it, and yet you keep mucking up Real Estate threads with your psycho babble.
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Lets see:
$86K home, 20% down, tax 900, insurance 600 3.5% payment = $433.94
7.25% payment = $594.34
Home will rent for $1100 a month...
maybe you just really don't know how to do simple math? I know you aren't very bright, but you keep saying over and over how when rates go to 7.25% it will crash the market... yeah, ONLY paying $500 less than the rent is going to be so terrible to those future buyers, you know when those rates go flying up and all cause that is going to happen any day now!
You really don't get anything about markets, buying homes, investing, anything!
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underwear bad investor: You have yet to answer how this imagined rate increase is going to crash the market... Come on now...
Lets see:
$86K home, 20% down, tax 900, insurance 600 3.5% payment = $433.94
7.25% payment = $594.34
Home will rent for $1100 a month...
You've said it over and over how rising rates will destroy me. Please do explain!
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Oh i see, so a payment that is $500 less than the rent will seem terrible... This from YOU the complete moron who bought an investment home that rented for $400 less than his mortgage! You do realize that this is $900 net improvement over your purchase, each and every month?
no wonder you lost your ass in home investing! Good luck on that silver thing dearie!
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Maybe, maybe not. As long as America has the strongest military, which I support, and doesn't use it to take over the world, like the idiot neocons support, we will have a reserve currency.
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underwaterman says
Except for it not being liquid, you are correct. However, in a Business Insider interview he lumped gold in with other commodities that could crash.
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In a sense, it does. You are the one who keeps saying that wages are flat or falling for the last decade. Interest rates and wages move together, so it's not surprising that interest rates are falling.
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That is not always the case. Don't count on it in times of turmoil.
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Housing is the most illiquid. You are right.
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underwaterman says
What investment?
You have no information here about an investment strategy.
Gold isn't an investment strategy.
Are you buying, and selling by market timing, because that is the only way to make gold work for you.
It's like taking your jewelry in, and out of pawn.
You haven't presented a strategy, and yet you are here killing another Real Estate thread with your Glenn Beck gold stories.
Then you throw in some insults, and psycho babble, and off you go again.
I've outlined some of my investments, but you have only told tales about losses.
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strawman? made up? that is the home I'm buying in precisely 10 days. You sir claim that this mythical interest rate increase will crash the market, taking me with it...
And, you don't seem to understand percentages. robertoaribas says
So, the home owner goes form saving 60% over renting, to ONLY saving 45% over renting!!!!
If the mortgage was $1, and went to $6 a month, you'd be screaming about a 5000% increase! you're very funny in your stupidity!! [notice the you're and your... you always use them wrong!]
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Yeah, they ain't causal.. But they are correlated, and that is all an investor needs to know... But hey, you do know that one of the FED's mandates is "full employment" and their primary tool to encourage that is interest rates, so you'd have to be pretty dumb to not see the connection... Then again, you've sort of established that already!
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let's see, you call my example hypothetical and made up... I respond that I'm actually buying it, so it isn't hypothetical and made up... and then you call me narcissistic...
1. choice 1, its made up nonsesne.
2. choice 2, I'm bragging and narcisistic...
you do realize that everybody reading this blog recognizes how jealous of me you are? it's really getting sad!
I'm sorry you are a loser; you lost money in homes, did your wife leave you then too? That's what I'd guess from the bitterness you post.
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Since you know nothing about economics, I'll clue you in... when employment gets tight, wages go up... Hey, it's Supply and Demand again, this time in labor! you know, the concepts I use to make money in real estate that you never understood, causing you to lose money in real estate!
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underwater, you are a poor little loser and a coward. You insult my intelligence all the time. Any time you care to take an IQ test with say $10,000 on the line, I'll take the bet. post your name, and who you are on here, we'll analyze your housing "profits" cough cough, short sale or foreclosure, and then find a college testing center and compare...
we all know you are too much of a coward to ever do this!
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I think you are wrong about that. I think a desperate US would threaten and maybe already has implied a threat.
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Who says you will have internet in a crisis?
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Of course not, oh reading comprehension deficient one. I never claimed they were.
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I guess that proves it then. I guess prices didn't rise over the past 12 months in the US, and I guess they aren't up 40% in Phoenix, since the bottom... Funny how reality doesn't give a crap about your reasons it can't do what it is doing!
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Ok, let's look at your investing wisdom!!!!

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Unfortunately...
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its the case-shiller index, can't you read?
by your own posts, those are the dates you bought and sold, and you claim to have made a profit... Funny that you won't post an address, so one could compare the 2004 and 2005 purchase price, to your 2012 sales price... I'm betting short sale is why you refuse!!!!
Hey, here is the same chart for me!
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Faulty research? Or did you just make this up?