The Fed Just Ended QT! Here's What That Means for Home Prices
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The Federal Reserve says it’s ending Quantitative Tightening — but can it really stop money-printing without breaking the system? Ken and Danille McElroy explain how the Fed creates money, why it can’t easily reverse course, and what this means for investors, entrepreneurs, and anyone trying to navigate an economy built on liquidity.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to discuss Pal QT and why this isn't 2007. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, so I went through 2007 and this is nothing like it, not even close. |
| 0:17.0 | So in 2007 there were all these things that were going on before. And mostly, the big issue then |
| 0:23.6 | was home prices, right? Home prices dropped significantly. So 2008 they dropped. Or 2007, 2008. They |
| 0:30.8 | started 2007. You're right. But eight, nine, ten, it just kept going, right? And so what really, the big difference between then and now are home prices. |
| 0:42.2 | And so right now people have a lot of equity, like trillions of dollars of equity. |
| 0:46.7 | I think last time I looked, it was well over a trillion dollars of sitting equity in their homes. |
| 0:52.4 | Whereas back then, it was, they called it mailbox money, |
| 0:56.6 | jingle mail. The jingle mail is when they would just mail the keys back to the bank. Yeah. |
| 1:01.2 | Because there's no reason to keep it. Yep. Yep. And then Power right now is, you know, |
| 1:05.8 | as we talked about earlier, is starting to ease on quantitative tightening. |
| 1:14.5 | So that is going to be interesting for the market as well. |
| 1:15.6 | It was a big announcement. |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.4 | So let me let me just outline real quick. |
| 1:20.9 | So you guys probably heard of the U.S. Treasury. |
| 1:26.0 | So the U.S. Treasury, they print dollars and mint coins. |
| 1:27.2 | So that's what they do. |
| 1:28.4 | You know, |
| 1:31.1 | that's the stuff you probably have in your wallet or home or whatever. |
| 1:33.1 | The Fed, |
| 1:35.1 | when they talk about money printing, |
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