| Ripple Effect — September 10, 2025
The housing market has been effectively frozen for three years.
That’s because, following record-low interest rates, homeowners refinanced with mortgages under 3%. Today, standing over 6%, the same home would have more than double the amount of interest each month.
Unsurprisingly, then, home prices have started to weaken as rates have remained high:  Home prices are falling in most metros amid high rates (Source: Barchart) With the Federal Reserve shifting towards a more accommodating stance – even with sticky inflation – this downtrend in home markets may not last.
If you already own your home, it’s no big deal either way.
But lower rates could make it easier for buyers to start bidding up properties again when home prices are already at record prices relative to wages.
Think of it as the real estate echo of the terrifying bull market in stocks that rate cuts are likely to kick off.
~ Addison | 
One-year anniversaries aren’t typically headline-grabbers.
But the upcoming anniversary of Trump’s return to the Oval Office — arriving on January 20 — has an air of great urgency, because a major announcement could be forthcoming.
The potential bombshell announcement?
Well, it concerns a classified map of a “secret America" from 1946 — a map whose expanded U.S. borders could go into effect before January 20.
If enacted, this wildly controversial map would grant the federal government astonishing economic, societal, and military power.
But the investment implications could be even bigger.
Click here to view the secret map ASAP >> | P.S.: Most assets such as homes should see their prices rise as interest rates come down. We still see upside for stocks, gold, bitcoin – you name it. Not for healthy reasons, but because of the persistent decline in dollar purchasing power.
Grey Swan Live! this week: Mark Jeftovic joins us for “Shadow Fed & the American Dream” — how a September rate cut could hit the dollar’s purchasing power, where the money-market flood might go next, and why “control of money” is migrating from central banks to code, corporates, and courts.  If you have any questions for us about the market, send them our way now to: feedback@greyswanfraternity.com.
How did we get here? Find out in these riveting reads: Demise of the Dollar, Financial Reckoning Day, and Empire of Debt — all three books are now available in their third post-pandemic editions. You might enjoy one or all three. 
(Or… simply pre-order Empire of Debt: We Came, We Saw, We Borrowed, now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble or if you prefer one of these sites: Bookshop.org, Books-A-Million or Target.)
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