Biden’s new campaign theme for the midterms: economic darkness, darkness.
Well, this is one way to get inflation under control … crash the economy. And inflation fears growing, we are seeing mortgage rates declining and mortgage applications increasing.
Mortgage applications decreased 5.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 1, 2022. This week’s results include a holiday adjustment to account for early closings the Friday before Independence Day.
The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 4 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index increased 7 percent compared with the previous week and was 17 percent lower than the same week one year ago.
The Refinance Index decreased 8 percent from the previous week and was 78 percent lower than the same week one year ago.
In May, CoreLogic’s national home price index was up 20.9% YoY. But home prices are expected to grow at a 5.6% clip over the coming year.
Today, we are seeing global sovereign debt yields declining which should help US mortgage rates decline further.
And the US Treasury yield curve (10Y-2Y) continues to invert, signaling recession.
Under Bidenflation, we will be forced to eat the daisies instead of meat.
