@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoAmericans have now spent all $2.1 trillion of their pandemic savings, San Francisco Fed saysfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1245cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 year agoPeople spending all their savings is a consumer confidence indicator. Almost never a recession indicator
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoBut if they’ve spent all their savings they might not have money for things like a mortgage going forward
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoUnemployment is still very low, there’s likely not enough people in that kind of situation to have a significant impact on the housing market.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoI thought for sure the housing market would implode after the moratorium for evictions during COVID expired. I was wrong. Corporations just own too much real estate for something like that to make a dent.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoYeah it’s nuts. And nobody talking about laws to prevent stuff like this.
Housing market collapse?
People spending all their savings is a consumer confidence indicator. Almost never a recession indicator
But if they’ve spent all their savings they might not have money for things like a mortgage going forward
Unemployment is still very low, there’s likely not enough people in that kind of situation to have a significant impact on the housing market.
I thought for sure the housing market would implode after the moratorium for evictions during COVID expired.
I was wrong. Corporations just own too much real estate for something like that to make a dent.
Yeah it’s nuts. And nobody talking about laws to prevent stuff like this.