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A fascinating look at the sign of the times is shown here. It’s hard if you’re a politician to reduce the size of
government, and the movement of the federal government into owning consumer loans is no different. Anyone
willing to wager that this will go back down to something reasonable, like what was the case before 2010?
Moving to some housing market measures, the Homeownership Rate continues to be in a recovery trend,
although recent months were not encouraging. At 64%, homeownership in the U.S. is still much higher than in
most of the world, but don’t tell that to the Generation Zers or the Millennials. They most certainly would get
into a single-family home if they could.
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