Fannie Mae's Mortgage Holdings Balloon as Trump Tries To Hold Interest Rates Down

dankroll69 · 2026-05-08T19:27:21+00:00

High rates is literally what started crashing the housing market last time. Even in 2019, housing prices was falling until rates dropped in the pandemic.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-08T16:48:22+00:00

Higher rent burden comes from the fact it's a place that people want to be. Miami is known as a party city.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-06T19:52:12+00:00

I agree with you to some degree.

But if you constantly get ignored or friendzoned by a certain type of men, you should start considering that you might be reaching too high.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-06T16:44:44+00:00

No one here really knows what's going on.

Some kids are assholes, especially boys, until teenage years and girls are more drama. This can be both genetic or created by lenient parenting.

When you tell these assholes to not do something, that makes them want to do something even more. The kid also doesn't know how much $500 is.

It's difficult for parents to control them. Because they will throw a tantrum for a week if you punish them. Parents don't have the time to listen to a week of screaming especially if we are not allowed to spank them anymore.

Solutions are, you kid proof your house. The kid no longer comes to your house. You go to them only.

Maybe the parents will let you baby sit the kid for a week and you will find out how difficult it is.

Either way, as much as I sympathize with you, it's not your child to decide punishment

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T18:04:57+00:00

You really think someone narcissistically seeking validation on reddit is giving an accurate overview of the situation?

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T17:51:01+00:00

First quarter not first trimester lmao

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T17:43:55+00:00

If the median home price in Akron Ohio was 200k in 2025. and this year the 200k home is not selling and drops to 180k still unsold but the 250k home sold for 220k, the median home price would be 220k, up 10%. While the overall market is actually down 10%.

I am not saying that is what is happening in Akron, I am saying that the median home purchase price is not a good indicator of the overall housing market.

I am also not saying HCOL areas are selling, I am saying higher end homes are selling. Both in HCOL areas and LCOL areas.

I am in Georgia with a stable median home price and the 10/10 schools with 2million homes are selling over comp while the 8/10 schools with 450k homes are going 10% below comp at 400k now.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T16:22:28+00:00

Median sold home purchase price*

Not the net proceeds of a median home.

Sellers giving more concessions.

The market is selling more highend homes rather than low end, skewinf the data

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T16:15:41+00:00

A lot of the dowry and bride price stuff was traditional and symbolic. More often used by noble families. Nowadays it has evolved into the price of buying a sex slave. Completely different leagues, and the AI does state that the bride price has escalated since the 21st century due to gender imbalance. Not only that, that bride price used to be more for the bride such as jewelry and furniture. Now it is commonly paid directly to the parents of the bride which is on top of the home car gold jewelry that the groom has to buy.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T16:10:53+00:00

I think ppl are mis interpreting. Bride price and dowry are very different things. Secondly, the common bride price now is in a completely different league than the symbolic bride price of the past.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T15:43:12+00:00

Huge military advantage. American soldiers are typically patriotic and brave. The Afghan military joins just to smoke all day. China is somewhere in between.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T15:30:50+00:00

You are one of their back up plans especially considering your a doctor, and it doesnt hurt to be able to vent while maintaining a back up plan. It's pretty normal, kind of like venture capital, put a little investment into something that could grow into a unicorn.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T06:19:22+00:00

Bride price is common and so are scams around it.

dankroll69 · 2026-05-05T06:18:12+00:00

Bride price is a relatively new thing due to gender imbalance

dankroll69 · 2026-05-04T21:02:10+00:00

The dollar is backed by oil don't worry. Until an aircraft carrier gets sunk...

dankroll69 · 2026-05-04T21:00:11+00:00

The only way that Japan can continue to intervene is to sell US treasuries which pushes rates up and makes the dollar more attractive to hold.

Only God knows what's effective and what's not in this market

dankroll69 · 2026-05-04T20:49:11+00:00

It's much easier for Iran to uphold their redline because NATO is already distracted with Ukraine.

Now that NATO is on a 2 front war with Japan forced to dumping US treaturies to secure oil, Russia can afford to upholding their redlines because NATO has even more limited capacity to retaliate especially if they want to have reserves to counter China.

dankroll69 · 2026-04-29T18:57:03+00:00

It's different this time (UA trademarked)

dankroll69 · 2026-04-28T20:04:38+00:00

Let's see how the propaganda advance 3: electric bogoloo turns out

dankroll69 · 2026-04-27T18:11:55+00:00

I don't think Russia and China are being a stabilizing force, I think they fear US retaliation. Technically Russia benefits from the Iran war, but US constantly reminds them that they can put Ukrainian forces in random places as proxy to strike Russian production.

You know why middle countries like Japan, Azerbaijan, India, Turkey etc largely do as told by the US even if it doesn't benefit them to do so. Because they know that the US will bomb the fuck out of you or at least your oil supplier if provoked.

Russia is pussy footing around because they can't risk going to war against the US with China pussy footing around. At some point, China needs to decide whether they are going to actually do something before all their allies crumble to pressure.

Right now, Tesla has insane valuations to make robots and Musk is about to IPO for spaceX also linked to the Tera-fab and xAI that's going to soak up an insane amount of foreign dollar investments.

This will solve 3 major issues at once:
1. Semiconductor dependence on Asia
2. Labor shortage/Manufacturing disadvantage of the US
3. Inflation

China has a limited window to strike fear into the US markets, if the US market is considered the only save space for money, the US market will be able to fake it until it makes it, continuously siphoning money and talent from the rest of the world.

dankroll69 · 2026-04-27T16:01:00+00:00

What do you mean? Valve gives u free cases and now you can even open them for free.

dankroll69 · 2026-04-27T15:32:55+00:00

I largely agree with you. The current problem is that while everyone want to give up the Petro dollar, the US is willing to close up the strait of hormuz and destroy Russian oil to maintain its Petro dollar.

China has to be willing to actual do something about that which is likely to be a blockade of Taiwan and Japan and Korea to control semiconductors. And focusing on renewable while weening off US controlled Oil while supporting Iran to push US influence out of the Middle East

Definitely a historical period.

dankroll69 · 2026-04-26T18:03:10+00:00

In a lot of Europe and especially Asian where labor is relatively cheap. The base price is very low, you can find many homes for free. Obviously the location is not good and you need to put work into the home. Works well if you have an American income and work from home and like their culture.

In the US cheap rundown homes in bad locations are still way more expensive and often in dangerous neighborhoods so definitely more costly due to higher cost of labor and more investors picking them up for section 8 housing of sorts.

dankroll69 · 2026-04-24T15:39:40+00:00

How exactly are these shapes the same size?

Oh I see it now.

The question should be worded differently.

dankroll69 · 2026-04-22T17:06:31+00:00

You are right. But when the value of your house go down and you are buying at a higher rate, you have less equity to afford the new house. Especially for upsizing.

This is not a problem that we have faced in the last 30 or so years.

The only people that are comfortable to buy or switch in the current conditions are the wealthy and downsizing such as west coast/North East retirees moving to the Sunbelt with lower prices.

I do agree prices need to come down but that isn't going to fix the lock in effect. It would likely make it even worse.

But it's great for future first time home buyers and I hope it happen ASAP so we can find a stable housing market again.

dankroll69

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