Housing Crisis Archives - Rethinking the Dollar

Companies Purchased and Leased 80,000 Residences in Three Months

Jul 14, 2022 | Economic Collapse

There’s a battle for America’s spirit and global civilization’s destiny. Corporations and workers will soon fight. Housing causes fights. Who should own all the homes is an issue. I’m old-fashioned enough to think everyone deserves a legally...

5 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Will Kill Retirement

Jul 2, 2021 | Economic Collapse

Despite being in the boom phase of the business cycle, central banks worldwide are employing quantitative easing – the process of buying long-term assets to drive down interest rates – to prop up the global economy. The Federal Reserve was tightening for several...

Mortgage Mayhem Begins: Overall Delinquency Rates Soar As Housing Crisis Lurks

Aug 11, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Readers may recall as early as April we outlined how mortgage lenders were preparing for the most significant wave of delinquencies in history as tens of millions of people lost their jobs because of the virus-induced recession. Mortgage lending standards have...

US Housing Crisis 2020: Millions Miss Last Rent Payments, Tens Of Millions Could Soon Be Evicted

Jul 17, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Most Americans believe that “the worst is behind us”, but the truth is that we are sleepwalking into an unprecedented economic nightmare.… Week after week we continue to get economic numbers that are absolutely horrific, and it appears that we are heading for a...

Sizing up the 2017-2020 Housing Cliff Hanger

Feb 9, 2020 | News

The best time to size up the collapse in housing that I called almost two years ago will be when it is over — so we can visualize its full extent. Since it is now over by some measures, though not by others, this might be as good as we get for awhile as a...