All headed to money market funds?! The banks don't need the cash... I'm told. What could go wrong?
Cash everyday....
The US is one of few places you can fix money for 30 years. We can't, 5 year's max at a cost. Everywhere else in the world rate hikes flow through to the mortgage market at a much faster rate. It's a part of the exorbitant privilege of being the world's reserve currency. Nobody gets fixed mortgage rates like you guys do.
This is interesting but I don't think that would be entirely true just because we are the reserve currency. Why would anyone in these countries sign themselves up for big mortgages on these terms? It really seems like these places are set up for HUUUGE RE crashes.
I think it likely has more to do with the fact that Clif High got into. The US seems to have actual ownership of the land that exists nowhere else. Hence, banks would be getting much more valuable collateral, ie ownership as opposed to just some right to use the property. Banks don't need to use the property.
Narradigm Inestigation : Law. for reference. I HIGHLY recommend the whole video but the specific reference is first mentioned at about 10:30.