If it was the Biden admin’s intention to crush the housing market (with the help of the Fed’s rate hikes) and spark a powerful recession just so it can lower inflation, well “mission accomplished.”
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To rank America’s Top States for Business in 2022, CNBC scored all 50 states on 88 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness.
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U.S. consumer prices accelerated 9.1% last month, the fastest annual pace since November 1981 and the hottest print of the current inflation cycle.
U.S. consumer prices accelerated 9.1% last month, the fastest annual pace since November 1981 and the hottest print of the current inflation cycle.
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BRICS members call for cross-border payment in BRICS currencies to challenge the U.S. dollar. The BRICS—an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—held a summit on June 23.
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Second quarter profits at big U.S. banks are expected to fall sharply from a year earlier on increased loan loss reserves, as the pandemic recovery gives way to a possible recession.
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Housing has become increasingly unaffordable to millions of Americans — with home prices and mortgage rates continuing to rise (see the lowest rates you may qualify for now here).
Just as we warned back in March, housing affordability, as measured by Goldman Sachs, has deteriorated to its worst level on record.
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Through the first 24 months of the pandemic, U.S. home prices soared 38.5%. In some markets, like Phoenix and Dallas, home prices grew by more than 50%.
Well, that should have been a wake-up call. The 30-year mortgage rate soared by 24 basis points recently to 6.18%. So the latter now stands at well more than double the 2.65% rate which prevailed just 18 months ago in January 2021, and at the highest level since the tail end of the Great Financial Crisis in 2009.
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