The Loft Blog Top Ten lists have been quite popular lately. We’ve covered the top ten most popular articles and topics. Today, we’re revealing the top 10 requests recently made by Loft Blog readers who have responded to our information request forms. Now we really know what Loft Blog readers are thinking, asking and doing in today’s real estate market. Here are the top ten most popular information requests:
Consumers expect stagflation, according to University of Michigan, as “bullish exhaustion” might be setting in. U.S. consumer sentiment dropped to a 6-month low, falling well below analyst expectations. Personal income outlook fell as well, while inflation expectations soared, hitting a seven-year high. Consumers today expect an inflation rate of around 3.3%, indicating rapid growth in inflation fear. While business prospects are also expected to decline, prices are expected to soar, and consumers are predicting stagflation — persistent high inflation, high unemployment and stagnant demand, similar to what occurred in the 1970s. Caused by massive federal government handouts and federal reserve money printing, inflation can normally only be resolved through higher interest rates and recession. Without these needed corrections, the dollar would eventually end up like the Weimar Deutschmark or Zimbabwe dollar, making us billionaires or trillionaires, but with more inefficiency, and less real wealth than normal. Suburban home prices have already exhibited real signs of inflation, according to Barron’s.
The US economy is drowning in cheap debt, low growth and structural problems, delivering years of high unemployment. The U.S. looks to be in or heading towards stagflation. That will require substantial fiscal stimulus to keep the bottom half of the economy afloat. The political solution is to keep printing more money, and to delay the downswing, while the economic solution is to let the cycle play out. History suggests that the world will try to take the easy way out, and we shall lose control to runaway inflation.
TheStreet.com says there’s no use crying about stagflation. Profit from it! The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released a brutal jobs report, which showed a disappointing 49,000 jobs added in January, and a net negative revision of 159,000 jobs from the preliminary November and December reports. The Democrats are ramming through a stimulus package without a single Republican vote, with zero thought on how to pay for the trillions in stimulus, or the long-term effects of over-spending, while shrinking GDP.
We’re talking about one of the most feckless, fiscally irresponsible acts of destruction of the creditworthiness of the USA. That is not fully comprehended in a 10-year US Treasury note yield of 1.16%.
There is no use crying about it… buy some NFTs, and set your portfolio to profit from Stagflation.
Unlisted Homes in L.A.
What’s the biggest secret in LA real estate? Secret homes, of course. In some markets, upwards of 50% of the best deals are sold before they are ever listed. These pocket listings, and other off market properties, often dominated by a few top real estate agent teams, so powerful, that ordinary real estate agents complain, and even file lawsuits and try to get them outlawed.
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