What Higher Mortgage Rates Mean in the Real World

“Rates on the roughly 48 million outstanding mortgages in the U.S. will rise. There are still millions of adjustable rate mortgages out there, often second mortgages or HELOCs. Those will start ticking higher in the months ahead.  $240 a month ($2,880 a year) may not seem like much, but multiply that by a million, and then by many millions, and the number starts becoming consequential: that money is no longer available for consumption or investment. Rising mortgage rates reduce household purchasing power just like higher taxes and inflation. That means there is less household income to spend on other things, and that’s not good for ‘growth.'”

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-higher-mortgage-rates-mean-in-real.html

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