They stopped printing money when they started hiking interest rates. That's the literal meaning of quantitative tightening.

yes, my point being why go through this process if you will continue overspending and devaluing the dollar either way. It’s a mess, we wouldn’t be in this spot if our government could run a budget. On a personal note I've worked closely with my advisor to grow my portfolio from $200k to $4.8 million through stock trading because as a businessman, I prefer to invest my money rather than let it sit idle and lose value over time due to inflation.

Despite the ups and downs in the stock market, you've managed to turn your investments into good profits. Could you share the name of your advisor? I have $300k saved up and ready to invest. Letting money sit idle isn’t my style as well, I’d rather put it to work and keep it growing.

She is well known as - Chasity George Charles. please do your own research.

I am on the look out for experts and after doing my research online will say she meets my requirements, Thank you for sharing with us. I already sent her a mail hoping she can make out time in her busy schedule to assist me.

With their billion dollar infrastructure bill, that only used 10% for infrastructure

Still better than pissing money away every month on rent.

There is an ass for every seat that’s why. It’s amazing how people are in such a hurry to spend a lifetime of work on a home that’s 30-40% overpriced. The bottom is going to fall out, not of matter of if but when. Unsustainable

It's not that the houses are overpriced, it's that the dollar is being debased. Prices are not coming down. If you are ever going to buy, buy now. You can always refinance in the future but you can't lower your purchase price in the future.

@@Fatboylo1980 $400,000 is actually not that bad. Here in Toronto the average detached home price is over a million USD. For a half decent new 1 bedroom 800 sqft condo your looking at about $400 000 USD. So trust me. It can go a lot higher.

​@bobwoods1302 Depends on who you're asking

Houses didn't cost $400,000 back then though even when adjusted for inflation.

@@chainsawdodge834 Sure they did. At least in major cities. Maybe not out in the sticks

@@bobwoods1302no they didn’t in the 80s you could make 45,000 and be middle class name me a place where that’s a thing now?

@@dthrust9037 $45 000 USD in the 80's would be more than middle class. The 80's had soaring crime rates, double digit inflation and mortgage rates around 20%.

@@bobwoods1302 you also have to understand that inflation today is counted different than how inflation was calculated during Reagan and jimmy carter era. During the 80s inflation included energy,food,and housing market. If core inflation included energy and even just rent inflation would be at least 15% since 2021 alone(2022 reached a high of 12% inflation without food and gas prices being included)

No way, it’s both. My friends pay a lot more because their rate is so high

@@Lazerbadger2 if you overpay for a home that’s on that person period. Regardless of the reason And when it crashes and it will I will not feel sorry for anyone and I don’t believe they should receive any kind of help especially from taxpayers that are not willing to overpay

Still too high, drop to 4%, the feds making the banks rich

I bought my home in 2021 and got 2.25% for 30 years.

Not I

Bought mine at 3% in 2021….

wow massive gains! my partner recently hinted on going same direction.. what did you invest in, and who is your investment advisr please, if you don’t mind me asking? in dire need of asset allocation.

Thank you for this amazing tip. I just looked the name up, wrote her explaining my financial market goals.

FJB

Make the middle class homeless, increase inflation, increase cost of living, decrease the quality of life, yep! I’ll be voting for sleepy joe for sure. He’s done a great job as prez…

He is 🦆 ing all of us

😂😂😂😂😂 no more wars

there is always boom and bust

If I had to buy my house at 7%, I could t afford the payment. My payment would be $1900 more per month than I pay now. I would t be able to save much money.

That means you purchased recently, so you got hosed on the price and have the highest rate in 15 years. Cheers mate you are the worst financial wizard on UKposts.

@@poppystars9005 Well If I can afford 7% with no problems I am much better financially than most people plus my house has already gone up in value 50k in the past year!! So I have achieved the American Dream of owning a very nice home!

@@poppystars9005people need a place to live either way, blowing the money away on rent doesn’t seem appealing

Ok. But gas was cheaper than water is now. Houses were affordable, nay, CHEAP! No Internet meant you weren't competing against nearly as many people for a job. Companies still did pensions and retirement plans. Many things were still made in the US and if you bought something, you didn't have to buy it again in 5 years. (Appliances, clothes, and more) Driving with an open container was still ok in most states. Cars were cheap too, and maintaining or fixing one was something you could do at home without buying thousands of $$ worth of scan tools. You could buy your house from a catalog and build it yourself. People today can't even get decent quality lumber. Oh yeah, healthcare was WAY more affordable then. I'm sure there's more. But, hey, you just sit there and L your A O while judging people who don't think some sticks and wires on dirt you have to pay taxes on forever, should be worth their entire working time of their life.

@AlexR_44 🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmfao 🤣 minimum wage was 3.10 ! Every thing is comparable! Lmfao oh well have it so bad ! Lmao life is never easy! Make yourself worth more and you'll have bo problem

@@danielszymanski-jw5kq Dude, I'm worth plenty, but I have empathy. Nobody asked what the minimum wage was, I don't know why you think that's relevant. Every "thing" is not comparable, that is the point. Ugh. I'm done with trying to open your eyes, I didn't realize how closed they are.

Fixing Trump’s mess is costly.

@@MDK2_Radio Blaming it on the other guy stopped being believable two years ago.