• Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    More people buying houses makes the price of houses go up faster than the supply of houses. That’s why everyone got pissed about private equity companies buying all the houses. Raising interest rates stops people and companies from buying houses because they can’t finance them, so the price of houses stops going up.

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    It’s not just houses, that’s just the easy example.