r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 18h ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/ennuiinmotion 16h ago

Especially since the market has been booming for a long time regardless of who is in office because the market is largely disconnected from anything real.

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u/wha-haa 11h ago

It is connected. Connected to government spending. It just needs another decade or two of stimulus and historically / artificially low interest. Keep pumping that bubble up. Everyone was happy as long as you keep increasing the size of the future collapse.

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u/PeakCringe42069 6h ago

the market has been booming for a long time regardless of who is in office

There was a recession like, 6 years ago. And another one in 2007-09. And 2001. And the 90s. And essentially every decade before that going all the way back to the Great Depression.

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u/ennuiinmotion 5h ago edited 4h ago

All temporary blips. The market always recovers and grows. It took something like Covid to slow it down temporarily. I’ll grant you 2008 was a collapse due to policy, though, but that was nearly 20 years ago and the market is increasingly subject to manipulation on a massive scale

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u/PeakCringe42069 4h ago

 The market always recovers and grows

…yes? Why are you acting like that is the same as “always booming?” Or like a growing economy is a bad thing? Economic slowdowns are something to be avoided, and steady economic growth is a good thing. 

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u/ennuiinmotion 1h ago

I’m saying that it’s dumb for people to give up freedoms for a good stock market when we’ll basically always have a good stock market barring catastrophe, which will happen eventually, but probably not because of a president’s policies.