Why Inflation Is The Biggest Threat To The US Economy, NOT Covid
Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily
Jake & Gino
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | everybody, Jake and Gino here. |
| 0:08.6 | And Gino, the economy is a little different that it was about a year ago. |
| 0:12.8 | And a recent CNBC survey is now showing that Americans believe inflation is the biggest |
| 0:19.3 | threat to the US economy, not COVID. Now, inflation is becoming a |
| 0:23.8 | real concern. We're seeing it at the pumps. We're seeing it at the food. We're seeing it in asset |
| 0:27.2 | prices. So the belief is the Fed is going to begin tapering its bond purchases as a first step |
| 0:35.0 | to raise interest rates because raising interest rates should dampen the inflation. |
| 0:40.9 | G father, what say you? |
| 0:42.6 | It's a very complicated topic, but let's try to rip it down and make it as simple as possible. |
| 0:46.5 | And they manipulate everything. |
| 0:47.6 | So what happens in the long run? |
| 0:49.1 | You know, it depends on what these guys do, right? |
| 0:51.4 | So interest rates rise. |
| 0:52.8 | Supposed to slow down, you know, when the bond |
| 0:55.2 | purchase, I should say, when they start purchasing and slowing down the bond purchasing, |
| 0:59.0 | your interest rates are going to start to rise. What's happened in the past in real estate |
| 1:02.3 | is that that will slow down the purchase of real estate. We saw it a couple of years ago when our |
| 1:06.3 | interest rates rose in multifamily. It went up maybe half a point. Steel started coming out of contract because they stopped working because the debt |
| 1:13.6 | became more expensive. |
| 1:15.1 | It's very interest rate sensitive. |
| 1:16.6 | But since we're in a new paradigm, since we're post-COVID or we want to call it, |
| 1:20.4 | inflation is a real thing. |
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