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Do You Remember the Chaos That “Underwater” Properties Caused in 2008 and 2009? Well, it is Starting to Happen Again…
by Michael Snyder The Economic Collapse Blog
We never seem to learn. Over a decade ago, our leaders created the biggest housing bubble of all time, and when it finally burst the entire globe experienced great financial pain. So did they learn from their mistakes and fix the system? No, instead they just created an even bigger housing bubble. Now that housing bubble is beginning to burst, and that is going to have very serious implications for all of us.
One thing that we learned during the Great Recession is that home values really matter.
When home values get low enough, many borrowers simply decide to walk away from their mortgages, and so the fact that U.S. home values have plummeted by 108.4 billion dollars should deeply alarm all of us…