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by dave4420 435 days ago
That’s true in the long term.

In the short term, a sudden drop in house prices causes economic pain (e.g. people trapped by negative equity), and the US has a lot of economic pain about to hit it already.

I’m kind of sceptical that the scenario the article presents will play out though. The Fed would reverse course and buy up the bonds, if it came to it.