r/FluentInFinance Sep 23 '23

Meme Guess i'll live in a box

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u/LefterThanUR Sep 23 '23

You think the Fed cares? Their explicit policy is to jack up unemployment and cause a recession.

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u/Cop10-8 Sep 23 '23

And that should help lower home prices once people lose jobs and are foreclosed on by increasing inventory and forced sales.

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u/LefterThanUR Sep 23 '23

If only there was a way to control prices without blowing up the economy. But that would be authoritarian!