Yeah, at the expense of the general public through ramping commodity prices due to dollar debasement. So it's actually a net negative for the economy. Housing prices still have to come down anyway, and they will regardless of buying certain securities, just like in Japan.
Yeah, at the expense of the general public through ramping commodity prices due to dollar debasement. So it's actually a net negative for the economy. Housing prices still have to come down anyway, and they will regardless of buying certain securities, just like in Japan.
Yes I do. It might be nice for those underwater on their mortgages, but the cost of the FED buying MBS and UST's is passed on to everyone by debasing the dollar and causing food, oil and prices of everything you need to sky rocket. Sure, your day of reckoning with the bank might be delayed, but now you're seeing your essentials ramp in price. That is a massive negative to the consumer and any business has to buy commodities.
So no, it's an utterly reckless policy, and doesn't work in the long run. I sympathize with folks who were conned into being underwater, but not to the point of destroying anyone who has savings or has to buy food.
No matter how you dress it, no chump is willing to pay the price you paid on your Las Vegas house. Until that gets fixed, you're living in an artificial world of make-believe.
Obviously homes are more than just investments for a lot of people. But as if we needed to subsidize underwater stock prices after the 1929 crash...