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by joxel 1316 days ago
Maybe at the end of a long road of terrible home buying conditions for the entire country. One has to wonder if put together it would be a net positive.
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The buzzword of the week is macroeconomics.

For the parachute pants aficianados, the 1980's used the term poison pill to thwart certain strategies. The linear explains a lot of "fun the mentals/fundamentals" in place in 2022.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poisonpill.asp

Layoffs, housing price decreases, used car decreases, crypto crashes, balloning interest rates.

It looks like the updated strategy is "get them high enough to where the fall kills them" :)

It does sound like a macroeconomic saying if you look at several linears for each :p