youngandfree
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The Federal Reserve just announced they were going to try to help the economy again. They will lower interest rates again and buy more Treasury bonds. Can some one tell Beenanke and Timmy Geitner it isn't helping.
First off the interest rates have been at record lows for the past year or so. They keep lowering the rates and people still aren't buying houses and taking out loans. For the average consumer its because they don't have a job. The ones that do have a job can't get a loan with these record low rates because the qualifications have gotten much tighter. Which if they were this tight 10 years ago, we wouldn't have had the housing bubble burst. Case in point. My buddy spent 18 months trying to get a mortgage in Greensboro, NC. His credit score is the highest its been in 10 years. Makes more money and has more in savings than ever before. Twice he was preapproved by Bank of America and put contracts on a house. Not times, BoA changed their mind 1 WEEK before closing for random arbitrary reasons. One was he was late on a mortgage 7 years ago. The requirement was current for past 2 years. The other reason was they didn't like his savings "history" even though he had $11,000 in savings. He was only trying for about $300,000 mortgage, so nothing crazy. And the house he was trying to get had been on the market for a year, so it screwed the seller too. He was denied closing before the tax credit deadline because a random bank employee. So lowering the rates isn't helping because people aren't borrowing money and the ones that want to can't get the loans. If the housing market was booming with 6.5% rates, the interest isn't what's holding people back.
Another example is a statement made by another friend yesterday. He said his house has been on the mrket foe 7 months and is desperate to sell it. He said he hopes the lower rates will bring more people that weren't buying last week. Well another quarter point reduction in interest ISN'T what's keeping people from buying.
Now to the Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve is printing money. Since many countries have stopped buying T bills, they re buying gold. The sale of T bills is part of what maintains the value of the dollar. Since countries aren't buying, the Fed reserve decides we will buy them. But the inherent problem is when you buy T bills with worthless paper money that you keep printing it doesn't help. If buying of Treasuries wasn't vital to the value of the dollar the govt wouldn't care that other countries aren't buying them. Now when you buy them with printed money, obviously the value will keep going down.
Case in point is when the top Democratic financier, George Soros, pulled his money out of the market and bought Gold with it. It should raise a red flag. Like when the CEO of a company dumps their stocks of their own company, they know something bad is going to happen.
First off the interest rates have been at record lows for the past year or so. They keep lowering the rates and people still aren't buying houses and taking out loans. For the average consumer its because they don't have a job. The ones that do have a job can't get a loan with these record low rates because the qualifications have gotten much tighter. Which if they were this tight 10 years ago, we wouldn't have had the housing bubble burst. Case in point. My buddy spent 18 months trying to get a mortgage in Greensboro, NC. His credit score is the highest its been in 10 years. Makes more money and has more in savings than ever before. Twice he was preapproved by Bank of America and put contracts on a house. Not times, BoA changed their mind 1 WEEK before closing for random arbitrary reasons. One was he was late on a mortgage 7 years ago. The requirement was current for past 2 years. The other reason was they didn't like his savings "history" even though he had $11,000 in savings. He was only trying for about $300,000 mortgage, so nothing crazy. And the house he was trying to get had been on the market for a year, so it screwed the seller too. He was denied closing before the tax credit deadline because a random bank employee. So lowering the rates isn't helping because people aren't borrowing money and the ones that want to can't get the loans. If the housing market was booming with 6.5% rates, the interest isn't what's holding people back.
Another example is a statement made by another friend yesterday. He said his house has been on the mrket foe 7 months and is desperate to sell it. He said he hopes the lower rates will bring more people that weren't buying last week. Well another quarter point reduction in interest ISN'T what's keeping people from buying.
Now to the Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve is printing money. Since many countries have stopped buying T bills, they re buying gold. The sale of T bills is part of what maintains the value of the dollar. Since countries aren't buying, the Fed reserve decides we will buy them. But the inherent problem is when you buy T bills with worthless paper money that you keep printing it doesn't help. If buying of Treasuries wasn't vital to the value of the dollar the govt wouldn't care that other countries aren't buying them. Now when you buy them with printed money, obviously the value will keep going down.
Case in point is when the top Democratic financier, George Soros, pulled his money out of the market and bought Gold with it. It should raise a red flag. Like when the CEO of a company dumps their stocks of their own company, they know something bad is going to happen.
