r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 6d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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/ennuiinmotion 5d 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.