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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#662: The Housing Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About with Melody Wright

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Marty sits down with Melody Wright to discuss the brewing housing crisis, rising mortgage distress, and why she believes real estate speculation has created an unsustainable bubble that threatens younger generations.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.5

Melody Wright.

0:38.7

Welcome to the show.

0:39.5

Thank you for joining me.

0:41.4

Well, thank you so much for having me.

0:42.0

It's my pleasure.

0:47.9

Well, as I was saying before we hit record, I was on Michael Ferris's show, coffee and Mike last week. And after our conversation off the record, he said, you have to reach out to Melody.

0:52.3

I was telling him, I'm in the market to buy a house

0:55.4

Where I live in the Northeast in the Philadelphia area and you've been on his show I've since

1:02.0

My conversation with Michael watched a few of the podcasts you've been on in recent months and I think

1:08.4

This is the conversation that I'm not only going to get value out of,

1:11.6

but we have a lot of millennials, Gen Xers, in the audience who are probably in a similar

1:18.0

position than I am. So I'm really happy to jump in and talk about the real estate market with

1:22.5

you. Awesome. Looking forward to it. Yeah. And like I said, I wanted to open with a chart.

1:28.8

You come with a bunch of quantitative, hard data, something I like to follow, not only in real estate, but just generally, is Google Trends.

1:38.2

And if we look at Google Trends right now, particularly for the search, help with mortgage. We are at, we have reached March 2009 levels.

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