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>>Argument I heard today was to give the housing market a kick. Housing is a huge part of the economy and the market is stagnant due to high mortgage rates. No one with a 3% mortgage wants to move. <<

Or, maybe the "JCs" want cheap loans, so they can have their companies buy back more stock, to push the price up, to fatten their bonus? We talked, for years, on METAR, about how corporate America was addicted to the "crack" of free money.

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