Do interest rates worry you?

[NotCranky]

NCrenter,
It is not a black and white as your realtor wants to make it out to be or as a few poster here would have it either. I guess some bears and realtors are not capable or thinking in a circumspect and nuanced manner on this topic. Maybe your realtor hasn’t been exposed the light of reason but the local bears have and still echo the same things they did before, namely that “rates absolutely affect prices across the board, all the time, all circumstances”. I advise you to expand you studies.

I have been coached to have the opinion that rates won’t change much in the next year, for what it is worth.

I certainly would not worry about making a buying decision exclusively on rates. There are so many variables worthy of considering.

[an]

I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.

[an]

I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.

[an]

I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.

[an]

I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.

[an]

I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.

[JWM in SD]

“I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.”

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.

[JWM in SD]

“I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.”

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.

[JWM in SD]

“I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.”

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.

[JWM in SD]

“I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.”

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.

[JWM in SD]

“I don’t get how someone can be very bearish on the economy and expect rates to rise at the same time. Especially knowing that BB is a recession/depression hawk. He’ll do what ever he can to keep us out of one.”

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.

[an]

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.
I guess I need my eyes checked. I could have sworn that rates were higher last year and FFR were over 300 points higher. Man, I really don’t understand what it means when the fed lower FFR by over 300 points. I guess the discount rate they control have no meaning either, silly me.

If you think that the fed under the control of BB will raise rate in the face of recession/depression, then the last several months must have been a dream.

[an]

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.
I guess I need my eyes checked. I could have sworn that rates were higher last year and FFR were over 300 points higher. Man, I really don’t understand what it means when the fed lower FFR by over 300 points. I guess the discount rate they control have no meaning either, silly me.

If you think that the fed under the control of BB will raise rate in the face of recession/depression, then the last several months must have been a dream.

[an]

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.
I guess I need my eyes checked. I could have sworn that rates were higher last year and FFR were over 300 points higher. Man, I really don’t understand what it means when the fed lower FFR by over 300 points. I guess the discount rate they control have no meaning either, silly me.

If you think that the fed under the control of BB will raise rate in the face of recession/depression, then the last several months must have been a dream.

[an]

You really don’t understand what is going on do you?? We are a net debtor nation who is dependant on influx of foreign credit to fund the deficit spending. Bernanke doesn’t really control the interest rates, at least not directly. He can only influence them. Ultimately, it is the market for debt that will control them in the long term and their appetite for risk and a weak currency policy that pays them back in weaker dollars.
I guess I need my eyes checked. I could have sworn that rates were higher last year and FFR were over 300 points higher. Man, I really don’t understand what it means when the fed lower FFR by over 300 points. I guess the discount rate they control have no meaning either, silly me.

If you think that the fed under the control of BB will raise rate in the face of recession/depression, then the last several months must have been a dream.

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