Iranians dancing in the streets, but long faces in Lib La La Land

[struth]

Mortgage interest rates are trending down in April 2026, with the 30-year fixed average dropping to around 6.37%. While rates are lower than a year ago, they are expected to remain volatile and likely stay above 6% for much of 2026 due to inflation concerns, rather than dropping significantly soon.

Yes like I said lowering

 

[sealybobo]

what will? Right now interest rates are dropping and have since Trump took office.

Why do you think lowering interest rates hurts us?

Oh, and that story about China and other countries not investing in America? They aren't buying our debt because we no longer seem like a safe bet? Or in retaliation for Trump? And how that's going to lead to higher interest rates? That's going to raise interest rates too.

 

[struth]

Oh, and that story about China and other countries not investing in America? They aren't buying our debt because we no longer seem like a safe bet? Or in retaliation for Trump? And how that's going to lead to higher interest rates? That's going to raise interest rates too.

As I highlight in my prior post foreign investment in the United States is on a upswing since 2024 historical low

You are confusing direct investment with buying debt.

Also not sure your obsession with China, we don’t want either from China. They spy on us, steal our IP, interfere in our elections, support rogue states, and are simply an oppressive, totalarian regime that enslaves people…nevermind I I get why you want them investing in the United States and why your party admires them so much


Also, yet another reminder, interest rates have fallen since Trump took office

Oh, and that story about China and other countries not investing in America? They aren't buying our debt because we no longer seem like a safe bet? Or in retaliation for Trump? And how that's going to lead to higher interest rates? That's going to raise interest rates too.

 

[80zephyr]

No. It's spin. I just showed you that people in the upper middle make $70-$150K. Is that a lot of money? Family of 4 making $150 is a upper middle? And 33% of us are in this bracket? Sounds like spin to me. And I'm sure that was true on Biden's watch too. After everyone got their inflation raises.

Fact is, however you were doing 70 days ago, you're doing worse now because of your boy Trump

Everything ebbs and flows.

 

[sealybobo]

Everything ebbs and flows.

Like I said in another thread, tariffs we only ate half of them. Corporate America ate the other half. So Trump hurt both us citizens and corporate America. And you hate big government huh? And you don't trust government. Meanwhile you watch the most corrupt government we've ever had since Bush lied us into Iraq. I thought Bush being an oil man and Chaney being a Haloburton man was too much but apparently not.

Anyways, don't think corporate America is going to continue to eat that half. Slowly, surely, the creep is already happening, the profit margins will be back up at your expense.

 

[sealybobo]

The upper middle class is now the largest income group in the US​

Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 7:44 AM

Facts seem to be opposed to the media.


The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, according to research from the nonpartisan American Enterprise Institute.

About 31% of U.S. households earn enough to be considered upper middle class, a roughly threefold increase since 1979, making it the nation's largest economic group, the research found. Meanwhile, the share of Americans in the "core" and "low" middle class segments has declined over that time, primarily because more households in those income groups have jumped ahead economically, AEI found.

Approximately 31% of U.S. households are considered upper middle class as of 2024, making it the largest economic group in the country. This group, which has grown from roughly 10% in 1979, is often defined for a family of three as earning between $133,000 and $400,000 annually.

2024? Wasn't Biden president when 31% of US households were considered upper middle class? So how did Biden get 21% more of us into the upper middle class?

 

[80zephyr]

Approximately 31% of U.S. households are considered upper middle class as of 2024, making it the largest economic group in the country. This group, which has grown from roughly 10% in 1979, is often defined for a family of three as earning between $133,000 and $400,000 annually.

2024? Wasn't Biden president when 31% of US households were considered upper middle class? So how did Biden get 21% more of us into the upper middle class?

Hmm. By the increase in wages you guys claim isn't happening.

 

[Ringo]

 

[sealybobo]

So one of Bibi NetenYAHOO's predictions is the citizens of Iran would rise up. He was sure of it. He told Clinton, Bush, Obama EVEN Trump 1.0, and Biden and they all said no. We would not go to war in Iran.

But Bush did go along with Iraq. So there is that. Republicans are the war mongers. Don't forget that. They are the ones who convinced us we had to take Saddam out. Now the Iatola. Now suddenly we should have done this 45 years ago?