re: Owen Shroyer questions the IQ of current Trump supporters

That sounded like a lot of nothing, respectfully.

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One of the biggies is not redoing what we've done (especially since 2009) when the economy goes bad and housing prices start to fall. Don't manipulate rates

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You're implying that "when the economy goes bad," we should engage economic policies which led to the Great Depression?

Look, you and I will likely agree ZIRP continued far far far far too long in order for Janet Yellen to prop up Obama's failed economy. But when you tie it to housing as a boomer advantage vs millennials, that's a losing premise. Sorry.

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The same thing that any market nonparticipants miss when lamenting the aggregated wealth of market participants.

Millennials

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What does this conversation have to do with millennials?

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. Instead, millennials stereotypically chose "cool" social experiences instead of marriage, real estate purchase, and/or investment. It was a poor choice.

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Sounds like you have talking points locked and loaded to copy and paste whether they apply or not

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Look, you and I will likely agree ZIRP continued far far far far too long in order for Janet Yellen to prop up Obama's failed economy. But when you tie it to housing as a boomer advantage vs millennials, that's a losing premise. Sorry.

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Did boomers (and Gen X) have a better opportunity to take advantage of that market manipulation by fedgov? Yes

Is all of that government-created equity seen in greater quantities by both population cohorts? Also yes.

Will Gen Z and younger (the ones who are angry at Trump for the economy) have anything close to that opportunity? No

Will they have the same opportunity for wages and growth? Also no.

And that's ignoring the social pathologies they have to deal with. There is a generation or 2 of young men with very limited economic future promise and an even worse landscape for marriage. Ignore them at your own peril. Irrationally try to focus on "millennials" instead, because you have some talking points ready to copy and paste, at your own peril.