Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Mortgage Rates Up, Home Purchase Activity at 20-Year Low

The following four charts are compliments of Zero Hedge.  As you will quickly notice, we don't have a housing recovery, in spite of what you hear from your real-estate broker.  However, never let a housing crisis go to waste without government intervention.  (I believe I have heard that phrase being used in the past.)  So, out of the House Financial Services Committee comes H.R. 5148 "Access to Affordable Mortgage Act of 2014."  That reads a whole lot like the "Affordable Health Care Act," doesn't it?  Well, do yourself a favor and do a Google search on this pending legislation; because if it is passed into law, we will definitely have another sub-prime mortgage debacle like 2008.

Now the charts,


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