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dutch777

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3. Somehow I doubt he wants to make the bubbles in real estate and Wall Street even bigger than they are.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:14 AM

Jul 18

He of all people has to see the same charts of massive overvaluation in many markets and know that when the bubbles burst it will be even worse than the 2000 Dotcom and 2008 real estate debacles. He isn't able to, but if he wanted to do us all a favor he would raise rates by a percent by end of year.

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