Econ the Fed raised the interest rate...

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...a whole 25 BIPPS. How long before they drop it again?
 
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I thought were supposed to be heading for a slow down? What gives?

They don't want to go to negative rates...even though that is really what the market dictates. We are far from a recovery...but they dropped rates too fast and left them too low too long
 

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Whelp bought a house anyway. Locked that shit down as low as I could. Just signed over the next 30 of my life.


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Whelp bought a house anyway. Locked that shit down as low as I could. Just signed over the next 30 of my life.


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Just did the same thing- locked the rate in today and we'll hopefully be closing by the end of January. Dumping this 120 year old POS that I can't use enough 4 letter words to describe and moving into a nice modern all brick house. I can't wait.
 

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I hope you both found a way to get out of suburbia and bought some land where you can actually live like you're supposed to. :)


Just shy of 4 acres- I'd looked at houses with up to 10 acres, but frankly the houses weren't that nice and were pretty over priced- which is why they were still on the market. The one we have a contract on is a nice house on a reasonable piece of land. And it's not a (hell of a) long commute for either of us.
 

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Meh indeed....but the reason Yellen gave is telling...it was a defensive raise so that they have the ability to drop it to zero again in case of another (looming) economic downturn...
i really wish the fed would just fuck off entirely

bastards have been killing small investors for the sake of large firms and gov
 
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Meh, refinanced ours for 10 years earlier this year. Paying this thing off and saving until we can pay cash for a place once we decide to move. So much money thrown away from finance charges in a 15-30 mortgage. 1/4 point makes a huge difference on that long if a term.