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Paul Krugman

Mortgage Rate Disconnect

Dropping Mortgage RatesStill “Artificially” HighWhere should mortgage rates be right now? If historical relationships held, the rate on a 30 year mortgage would be 3.5%(!). No, that’s not a typo; going back a decade or more, long-term mortgages cost typically cost about 150 basis points more than the 10 year U.S. Treasury Bond yield. The...
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