How FedGov Destroyed the Housing Market

Tags: Booms and Busts, The Fed, U.S. Economy

01/06/2023 Jeff Deist Alex J. Pollock

There is no real housing market in the US. Instead, an unholy trinity of Fannie/Freddie, the US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve Bank operate to distort the market at every turn and drive home prices up dramatically. Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex Pollock, an economist and former mortgage banker, joins Jeff to describe the reality few Americans know.

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