Hammer homes: Would a house price crash be a good thing?
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The Impact of Interest Rates on the Economy
I always thought, and not just me, but lots of economists and commentators on it would say, you're not thinking about what happens to these buyers when rates go up. And so that is only going to get more expensive. But I just feel like that was something that policymakers were ignoring and worse than that, we're encouraging buyers to ignore as well. Sometimes people are quite skating of the choices that first time buyers made. It's either that or try and survive in a rental market where you're kind of being constantly bled, dry by landlords and have no housing security whatsoever.
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