At the risk of sounding like an ass.... why? He's done a lot of horrible things that affected a LOT of people.

There's a lot of "Weekend At Bernie's" going on in Congress these days huh?

Ironically Bernie is one of the least comatose of the bunch.

Classic Autowa in force here.
Hey CBC, maybe put someone on the other side of the argument on the program?

It's crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.

A reflection of the state of the world then?

Raising rates will lower prices to some extent. So it should help somewhat. The issue is that's it's a very very blunt instrument. It just happens to be one of the only tools the BoC has to use. Ideally the feds would have stepped in at some poi t in the last 15 years to stop this madness...

I mean yeah. Once other "financial assets" become more attractive (bonds at 5.5%?) maybe less parasitical activity will happen in the housing market. The whole thing started going off the rails when rates dropped to essentially nothing.

If you think current home owners have it bad, imagine anyone trying to get in the market now. Not only are mortgages 3X the price, but the houses are 2X the price they were before. The entire thing is completely unsustainable, and yet the Feds have done fuck all. Well no, actually they have made it worse every single step of the way (see the first time home buyers savings account for the latest idiotic idea).

It's at the point where it's clear no single measure will solve this issue. What is absolutely infuriating is that NOTHING is being done. Actually scratch that, they are actively making things worse with crap like the "First Home Savings Account".

I just want to know what the actual fuck happened to him. I know a lot of people will say he was always a man-child and there's some things to back that up for sure. But I swear COVID does something to some people and they just turned into complete unredeemable asses.

The question is really best answered by asking did the person own real estate before the pandemic hit?

The financial chasm that ripped apart society along the lines of real estate ownership is very real

Honestly surprised there isn't more. There's a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.

Just keep kicking the can down the road until there's literally no other option...