From Yahoo Finance:
Housing market predictions for 2026: What buyers, renters, and homeowners can expect
If you’ve felt sidelined by the real estate market in years past, it’s fair to wonder whether 2026 finally looks different or whether it’s just another version of the same frustrations. The short answer is that the market does look calmer heading into 2026, but not dramatically cheaper or easier. Expert housing market predictions for 2026 suggest a market where preparation, flexibility, and local conditions are more crucial than chasing the perfect moment to buy, sell, or relocate.
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As of Dec. 11, 2025, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate sat at 6.22%, according to Freddie Mac. That’s progress compared to rates in 2023 and early 2024, but still expensive relative to the rock-bottom pandemic rates that are now in the rearview mirror.
Looking ahead to 2026, expert mortgage rate predictions largely agree on the direction, but not on the specifics. Many expect mortgage rates to go down in 2026. Zillow and Realtor.com point to mortgage rates in the low- to mid-6% range as inflation continues to cool. In its November Housing Forecast, however, Fannie Mae predicts that the 30-year rate will hit 5.9% by the end of next year.
What’s striking is how restrained those projections are. No one is talking about a return to mortgage rates in the 3% range. Not seriously, anyway. That era appears to be over, at least for now.
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Most major housing forecasts indicate a market that’s slowing down, rather than reversing. Zillow’s latest outlook projects modest price growth, with national home values expected to rise about 1.2% in 2026. Redfin’s forecast falls within a similar range, predicting roughly 1% year-over-year growth as part of a gradual reset rather than a correction.
The reason prices remain resilient comes back to supply. Even as listings improve from recent lows, housing inventory still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.
That shortage isn’t uniform. In some markets, inventory has rebounded faster. In other areas, particularly across parts of the Northeast and Midwest, Realtor.com data shows listings still lag well behind 2019 levels. In those areas, competition hasn’t disappeared, even if it’s less intense than it once was.
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This is where many 2026 housing market predictions begin to fall apart a bit.
On paper, the housing market already appears more favorable to buyers than it did a few years ago. Realtor.com’s November 2025 market data shows the typical home spent about 64 days on the market, roughly three days longer than a year earlier — the 20th straight month of year-over-year increases in time on market. Meanwhile, Redfin’s October national housing data highlights a market where sales and listings have barely moved, a sign that homes aren’t selling as quickly as they did during the pandemic-era frenzy.
That sounds like a buyer’s market. It isn’t — at least not everywhere.
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But our own CIA and FBI don’t know. Are they too busy rounding up apple pickers?
A world-renowned MIT nuclear science professor who was murdered in his home may have been assassinated by an Iranian operative, Israeli officials said.
Married father-of-three Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was gunned down in the leafy Boston suburb of Brookline at 8.30pm on Monday by an unknown shooter who is still on the loose.
Loureiro specialized in nuclear science, engineering and physics and he had previously spoken out in favor of Israel, a mortal enemy of Iran.
Now, Israeli officials have said Iranian operatives targeted t
The reason prices remain resilient comes back to supply.
So, the answer is a mind-numbing amount of rental pods being built as far as the eye can see. Right? Because it’s only a couple looking for house with maybe one kid. So, if inventory explodes one day, those rental pods sit empty?
I want to live near Paramus but I have no option but to rent a pod. Am I correct? Isn’t my theory that owning a house in the sphere of NYC is a luxury item and not just an asset?
The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of the biggest economic crisis of our lifetimes. Gold and silver prices skyrocketing to new highs will ultimately pull the rug out from under the U.S. dollar and Treasuries, sending consumer prices, bond yields, and unemployment soaring.
-Peter Schiff
that’s was the speech last night. they are panicking
“Muffin, Ridgewood, Ho Ho Kus and Allendale are not your towns. Maybe with a little work and some loans from family, we can squeeze your offer in on this one.”
https://www.trulia.com/home/475-dewey-ave-saddle-brook-nj-07663-38027902?mid=0#lil-mediaTab
Fast Rich Eddie
You can buy a house in Paramus or any where you like.
America is great again. You are great too.
We are all great.
Our energy costs are down so much the utilities are now paying us. Imagine that!
We are gonna get 2K checks, showered in cash. Our troops, hey, lets be patriotic and give them 1776.00 dollars.
You have a golden parachute made by United Healthcare. God is everywhere, he is blessing you at this moment. God bless you Eddie, it’s smooth sailing ahead! God will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!
$4,600 per month in PITI for a boxy house on a boxy piece of land:
https://www.trulia.com/home/243-devon-rd-township-of-washington-nj-07676-38053345
I’m not so sure I’d go so far as to call what happened last night a speech.
Seemed more like a hastily prepared PR stunt devoid of any real substance. I’d question whether or not he solo’ed that, but his administration is so inept I’m not sure we’d be able to tell if he had help or not…
Suzie Wiles put on her Golden Parachute, trying to distance herself from the upcoming train wreck.
Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
My prediction is that Trump will see sub “20%” approval ratings as the economy continues to drag.
House Republicans are now canceling Friday votes. Congress will recess for the rest of the year on Thursday afternoon.
Obamacare subsidies expire Dec. 31.
Busy street, 50 x 100 lot, mostly everything original. Dad has been gone for 20 years and Mom stares out the window in the home, now. Ellen has POA of attorney and wants to unload the joint. The other siblings think it should be listed for a $million:
https://www.trulia.com/home/108-pehle-ave-saddle-brook-nj-07663-38028225
only plan is to invade vanuezula
Ex says:
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 am
My prediction is that Trump will see sub “20%” approval ratings as the economy continues to drag.
Less than 20 seconds warning. What a PR disaster this would have been if it weren’t for these Jet Blue pilots. Listen to the call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lrSQuV-m0A
The U.S. Coast Guard is facing backlash for a policy change that reclassified swastikas and nooses from “hate symbols” to “potentially divisive” items, sparking outrage from lawmakers and advocates who demanded they remain explicit hate symbols. Although the Commandant, Admiral Lunday, issued a memo clarifying these symbols are prohibited, the official policy manual retained the less severe language, leading to congressional holds on promotions and continued confusion, with the Coast Guard insisting the memo supersedes the manual but the contradiction persists.
So Trump gives the tariff money away to the military as a bonus…
So what happens when the tariffs are declared illegal, and the court mandates that they are refunded back?
Who is going to claw that money back from the military members, who have already spent it.
Suspect they made this decision 20 minutes before the “speech”, after brainstorming the fastest way to give away the money that didn’t require congressional approval.
But, if our tariff money went to fund the military salaries, it’s effectively a tax now.
Thanks Trump for a brand new, never before conceived tax to fund the military.
Or is this really just a petty way to backstop the precipitous decline in approval ratings?
Anything to keep the tire fire burning brightly.
Pretty sure anything that DOGE saved was just spent…
Tax and spend, tax and spend.
re: “Tax and spend”.
More like Borrow and spend.
Deficit is shrinking folks.
“Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the federal deficit has declined by $516 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. Spending is basically flat, but revenue is up a remarkable 8.5%. President Trump’s tariff barrage explains part of that increase, but rising personal income tax receipts — driven by the record-setting stock market and good times in general for high earners — have been an even bigger driver. Which raises the question: Can it last?”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-12-16/the-federal-deficit-is-shrinking-can-that-last
Rate of climb like an F-16. F’n thing looks like a skateboard ramp.
https://www.us-debt-clock.com/
Hey Brianna, how was your math class today. You are in third grade now, so it’s time to tell you that your grandparents have buried you in debt. As of today, you owe 114,890 dollars, plus interest.
No college for you. Grandpa needs free Viagara, a hip replacement, and a Senior Freeze on his taxes. Enjoy your off brand Cheerios kid.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/debt-dashboard
Total national debt has grown by
$70,309.31
per second for the past year.
As of Dec 11, 2025
Federal Spending Comparison (FY2024)
Social Security
$1,461B
Interest on Debt
$882B
Medicare
$874B
National Defense
$874B
Health (Medicaid)
$616B
Income Security
$415B
Veterans Benefits
$303B
Education
$139B
That is $516 billion the U.S. Treasury did not have to borrow money to raise cash needed to keep the Government operating. T-Bills, T-Notes, and T-Bonds, and debt and interest our children do not have to pay for.
Here is the Buy Now Pay Later statement for the Installment Plan from the Treasury on all debt we had to sell all the way out into the future 30 years from now to the year 2055.
Debt your children and grandchildren will have to pay for.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-reports/mspd-entire/MonthlyStatementPublicDebt_Entire_202511.pdf
Boomer doesn’t care about children. They use them as weapons, the priests and Epstein islands use them for you know what, American women like that they make fancy clothes for them in far away places for cheap prices so they can go out and have fun.
The cost of protecting the dopey drivers of America. Just wait till you need to replace a mirror, a grille, or windshield on your car that does the thinking for you. Not cheap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPrktqTRYiw
So as we thought the self deporting migrants Mexicans, Hondurans and Salvadorans etc all abandoned their subprime used cars and trucks and sunk the Tricolor car dealerships out of TX, AZ, CA?
Not so fast. Fraud was the real cause not non-payment of subprime auto loans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/tricolor-holdings-fraud-subprime-car-loans
Fast : I think it’s reasonable to predict that inventory will explode one day, so where does the demand come from? Gen Z the AI generation? As for the rental pods , who knows, maybe more of the old folks. Your listing in Saddle Brook is demonstrative of the delusions out there. Will someone be that desperately to “own” a house that they will pay anywhere near the asking price?
Trump a speech was more blame game than speech. Americans are not happy, he needs to stop blaming the previous administration. He owns this now.
BOE cuts rates again. They are close to recession, and the right wing Reform Party continues to do well in the polls.
3B – That Saddle Brook home is Highly Desirable. It’s nestled between Route 46 and Route 80 and The Garden State Parkway. There are also two train lines and a rail yard there.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/475+Dewey+Ave,+Saddle+Brook,+NJ+07663/@40.8973124,-74.1020507,1344m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c2fbdd5fb45653:0x329a23249d76f7f!8m2!3d40.8988692!4d-74.1003663!16s%2Fg%2F11c1kcx6tm?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA2N0gBUAM%3D
Inflation pressures eased more than expected in November, according to the latest data on consumer prices published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.7% over the prior year in November, less than the 3.1% increase that had been expected by economists, according to Bloomberg estimates.
On a “core” basis, which strips out the more volatile costs of food and energy, prices rose 2.6% over the prior year in November. Economists had also expected to see a 3.1% increase in core prices.
Any questions?
Yeah.
I don’t believe those numbers. Have you gone shopping lately?
I plan to use the bounce today to sell another 10% of the 30% that I have still non-fixed.
Trump increasingly lives in his imagined alternate universe where he’s the greatest president in US history, he’s a scratch golfer who wins every tournament he enters, his tariffs are making us rich, all foreign leaders bow to him, his penis is the largest and most virile women and men have ever seen, and all problems are the result of other people not obeying his orders.
His narcissism is sad, almost a clinical problem.
It’s the self-deluded sycophancy others provide this aging president that is more disgusting.
Juice: Thanks again for pointing out my mistakes in not acknowledging these positive attributes, and why anyone should be thrilled and proud to buy this abode. Plus, there is a prestige factor too , the town has Saddle in the name, like Saddle River. So, that is worth a premium too.
Saddle River – redolent of Hermes
Lib: I don’t believe those numbers either, a trip to the grocery store says otherwise. However, Jason Furman Obama’s top economic advisor says inflation has slowed since the summer. Lots of noise out there.
Lib – re: “I don’t believe those numbers.”
Alternatives are out there.
Penn State CPI indexes… https://sites.psu.edu/inflation/
Gold sent a false signal. It is a bubble created by China trying to dodge the dollar. Nothing more, nothing less. Don’t get caught up in the doomerism going full throttle past month. Buy the dips, esp in crypto. Inflation is down big time….writing is on the wall. Get ready to see what the roaring 20s 2.o is all about.
VSG says:
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 am
The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of the biggest economic crisis of our lifetimes. Gold and silver prices skyrocketing to new highs will ultimately pull the rug out from under the U.S. dollar and Treasuries, sending consumer prices, bond yields, and unemployment soaring.
-Peter Schiff
If you are smart…you are selling gold and silver… buying beat to chit crypto…..my two cents. Maybe I am fool….maybe not. Time will tell.
I like Peter Schiff, the only problem is has been wrong for years, but you never know he could be proved right one day.
Juice: Like I said, noise out there. I think grocery prices are still very expensive. It must cost a lot to feed a family of 4 today with a couple of growing teens. We only have to buy for two, and it is pricey.
lol, VSG now quoting Peter Schiff. You switching sides bro?
Peter was my stock broker before he got famous. I remember he was actually involved in giving Lahde Capital most of his firepower to short the subprime market. It was a good call. I recall getting the email asking for seed investors on it but I was too young naive and too poor to even think about something like that. I was initially attracted to him because I was convinced the US trade deficit was going to blow up in short order.
That being said, Peter is a pretty mediocre stock picker. His schtick was that all the foreign markets will outperform, which none of them did for the next 2 decades. During 2008/2009, I had big losses across nearly all the foreign stocks he recommended but still profited overall on because a Hong Kong stock called Skyworth digital which rallied like 1000%. At the time, he was charging $50 a trade on the foreign markets and you had to pay it because you didn’t have good access to those things. I closed my account soon after because when he got famous, he moved me over to one of his employees as he was not hands on anymore. I had placed an order for a trade on a company called Singapore Petroleum. He never executed it and I missed out on $2000 profit when it was bought out a month later.
Schiff gets it here.
This is why I am not afraid of debt. Just keep tossing capital at this…if we come through with this innovation, we have made it to the promise land. A life with whatever purpose you want instead of wasting time with mundane tasks.
“Socialist Bernie Sanders is upset that rich people might get richer by developing AI. Apparently, the real tragedy isn’t poverty or scarcity, but the possibility that someone might profit while making everyone else’s life easier.
If AI raises profits by raising productivity, producing more and better goods at lower prices, then consumers are the real winners. But Sanders isn’t worried about consumers. He’s worried about jobs, as if jobs are some moral good in and of themselves.
Jobs are not the goal. They’re the cost. We don’t work because work is fun. We work because we want the goods and services that work produces. If technology lets us get those things without the work, that’s not exploitation, it’s progress.
Every worker is also a consumer. And consumers benefit when prices fall. When goods and services cost less, people don’t have to work as hard to afford them. If prices fall far enough, people barely have to work at all. That’s not a dystopia, that’s the logical endpoint of productivity.
As long as goods and services are scarce, some work will always need to be done. When technology eliminates one job, it frees up labor to do something else. The less labor required to meet our needs, the more leisure society enjoys and the higher our collective standard of living. That’s how civilization advances.
But if Sanders is right, if anything that eliminates jobs is bad, then we should be consistent. Let’s not just smash all the robots and ban AI, but destroy every labor-saving device ever invented since the Stone Age. That way every one of us can go back to foraging, hauling water, building straw huts by hand, and stitching clothes from the hides of animals we kill ourselves with hand-carved spears.
Everyone will have a job working from sunrise to sunset, every day. No one will be unemployed. No one will retire. If you don’t work, you die.
But at least Bernie Sanders will be happy, as no one will be getting rich off us.”
Pehle Ave is prime.
Beemer AND a Mercedes in the driveway.
$1m is cheap.
Don’t bother even submitting an offer unless you drive a European import.
Pumpkin – I am all in crypto since you told me about it. Today there is now a Sherriff at my door…He says I have to get out because I did not pay my mortgage and my excuse that “it is not on the blockchain” was not accepted by the Judge..
I have all this crypto. It’s not me it’s the liquidity of the market I told the Sheriff, and I asked him if he would wait another two weeks because Michael Saylor said Bitcoin would hit $150,000 by the end of this 2025.
Two more weeks right Pumpkin… I have Diamond Hands I will not sell….
10:13 “Bimmer” Pls
Juice,
Mock it all you want, but it has been the best performing asset in human history since its inception. Imagine mocking this…
And the fact that people still call it a scam and mock it…..still really early to this game. Plenty of meat on that bone.
Pumps – assest? No don’t you dare debase my Bitcoin..
It’s money…Bitcoin is money. It is a legal medium of exchange to buy good and services in El Salvador.
Get it right pumps Bitcoin=money..
For a while tulip bulbs were the highest returning assets in human history.
Then it was whatever Cathy Wood owned
Bitcrap should pay you to own it, I still haven’t heard a description of its tangible utility in the real world, but I have heard that it’s expensive and requires real world resources (costs) to maintain – like you have to keep a bunch of computers on for it to even exist, you have to remember your passwords.
I wonder how many bitcoin millionaires have their “riches” evaporate because they get hacked, or they die/lose their memory/etc without ever telling their spouse or kids.
My wife can’t even turn on the AV system without my help. Nobody’s going to help families recover missing bitcoin value. Many will probably never know it existed.
Bimmer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Transportopia/comments/1ppcols/reckless_driving_ends_with_being_crushed_under/
This country is done if the next election is JD Vance vs AOC.
F@ck us all.
Though it will be entertaining after JD gets a divorce and marries the psycho hose beast.
(How’s that for obscure references)
Where the hell are the Epstein files?
House Republicans call early Christmas break before Epstein files release
Here they are.
I have two very accurate inflation gauges. The Burger King coupons I receive every Thursday in my mailbox and what I pay for products in the supermarket (mainly Shoprite). It’s highly scientific. Ignoring the crazy meat prices, its seems like just about everything continues to drift up. Especially the Whopper!
EU leaders gather now to vote on stealing Putin’s money.
“European Union leaders have gathered in Brussels to hold a vote on whether they are able to use nearly $200bn in frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine over the next two years.”
Juice Epstein Files are to be released on Dec 19, tomorrow. 30 days from the date signed the bill.If they are not released it will be a shit show.
Grim – AOC?
Did you not see her last night? Kamala is back and she is swinging for the fences.
Kamala on Kimmel last night. Here is the full 20 minutes in all it’s glory..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRh6vwdZnYw
It does require Congressional Approval.
but he will LOUDLY point fingers to any congressman who votes against it.
you see, congress fault if you don’t get your handout
grim says:
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 am
So Trump gives the tariff money away to the military as a bonus…
So what happens when the tariffs are declared illegal, and the court mandates that they are refunded back?
Who is going to claw that money back from the military members, who have already spent it.
Suspect they made this decision 20 minutes before the “speech”, after brainstorming the fastest way to give away the money that didn’t require congressional approval.
lots of evidence already destroyed
3b says:
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 am
Juice Epstein Files are to be released on Dec 19, tomorrow. 30 days from the date signed the bill.If they are not released it will be a shit show.
Grim: AOC campaigns very hard, so she deserves to win for President. I was told she campaigned very hard to be elected Congresswoman and that in an of itself makes her qualified, to be a Congresswoman so I assume the same for her as President.
But to your point, it will be the end. if it its AOC and Vance.
Newsome, AOC, Buttibeig, Bashear , Gallego,P ritzker, and, Harris the likely contenders at the moment.
If you had any decency you would have attached a warning to this link.
Anyone who clicks that will vomit.
Juice Box says:
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 am
Grim – AOC?
Did you not see her last night? Kamala is back and she is swinging for the fences.
Kamala on Kimmel last night. Here is the full 20 minutes in all it’s glory..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRh6vwdZnYw
VSG: How do you know that? And, as I have asked you in the past, why didn’t Biden release the files if there was anything damning about Trump in those files. As it turns out the files can be released. And, don t you think Biden owed it to the American people to provide that information to the American people if there was in fact damning information about Trump in those files?
11:27 she’s not wrong DICKHEAD
AOC is a turd.
A good looking turd, but a turd nonetheless.
I read an article where the Purebred Republican sect has some nasty names for Vance’s ol’ lady.
I guess when you promote that to an extent, it’s hard to control where it lands, and even harder to put that genie back in the bottle.
Phoenix,
I didn’t vomit by just clicking but the amount of lameness emanating from those two losers, it’s pretty cringe-inducing. Seems to be a mutual support group of two people seeing their support among normal folks evaporate.
LFG!
“US inflation just got vaporized ahead of the liquidity wave—bullish af doesn’t even cover it, this is biblical.”
This song goes out to AOC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EeZ27rBwks
Dark: She is painful to listen to, just like Harris.
AOC is also a fraud, she claims she is a Bronx girl from my old neighborhood, where I grew up and went to school. She moved when she was to bucolic Yorktown Heights in Westchester Co. That said the Republicans don’t have any one on the horizon except for Darth Vader.
Some might consider this music misogynistic. But the Bollock Brothers didn’t let that stop them from recording a video. I wonder what AOC thinks about this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4JXHmvsCMU
Whaddaya know???
Heather Long, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, said in an email that Thursday’s report was “the data nerd equivalent of the ‘emperor has no clothes’ story.”
“It’s hard to take this data seriously. There was no data collection in October and limited collection in November,” Long said. “A key reason inflation cooled unexpectedly is a big easing in rent costs. That doesn’t match up with private sector data, and it doesn’t pass the ‘sniff test’ of reasonability.”
Indeed, the cost of housing was one of the categories that was immediately debated following the report’s release. Shelter costs comprise about a third of the index, and the Labor Department said that shelter rose 0.2% between September and November. The overall index rose 3% on an annual basis.
“It appears that BLS made a big judgment error in its shelter calculation (effectively assuming 0 in October), leading to inflation understated,” Harvard economist Jason Furman said in a post on X. “It is, however, very unlikely this error was political. If anything the opposite: they stuck to algorithm rather than using judgment.”
Inflation would still be cooler without the shelter data, Furman noted, just not by as much.
“Hopefully @BLS_gov will clarify this,” Jed Kolko, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said in an X post responding to Furman’s take. “Lots of confusion in expert text chats this morning.”
Long, the Navy Federal Credit Union economist, said one “big driver” of the lower headline inflation number appeared to be “real.” Those are gas prices, which have continued a steady descent below an average of $3 nationally, reaching their lowest levels in over four years.
Meanwhile, Sam Tombs, chief US economist at Pantheon Macro, pointed out another wrinkle: “A higher proportion of price quotes than usual for November likely were sourced during the Black Friday discount period,” he said in a note to clients.
“November’s CPI data have to be treated cautiously, given that CPI data collection resumed only on the 14th after the end of the shutdown,” Tombs said.
But for now, economists say that December’s data will offer a better picture. That’s currently scheduled to be released Jan. 13, as the government’s data collection starts to revert to a normal schedule in the wake of the shutdown. That will give the Federal Reserve more of a picture before its next interest rate decision later next month.
“The key takeaway is we need to wait and see what December and January data show,” Long said. “Inflation probably didn’t ease in November, but it seems likely it isn’t getting worse. That gives the Fed time to pause and assess.”
Phil has spoken on your power bill.
Our regional power grid operator PJM has failed us.
The grid is using all the capacity it currently has — any future growth unmatched by new supply will cause prices to go through the roof.
There is no way around the fact that we need to bring a significant amount of new generation online as quickly as possible. PJM needs to work in partnership with governors in our region to make that happen.
Otherwise next summer’s energy auction, without a price cap, will be disastrous for your electricity bill.
Bongino got all the way to the FBI and figured out who the “deep state” was and who was in the e pstein file and now hes quitting
BRT: If property taxes and high electricity costs are an issue, perhaps NJ is no the state for you, and everyone else that believes it is an issue, which is most I would think. Thank goodness we have Mikey coming on next month to make NJ affordable. The Democrats working hard for the everyday people.
VSG: Is that fact, or again your opinion. It seems more likely to me his tenure at the FBI was getting his credibility and his pocket book with his followers.
Too bad Phil Murphy fought so hard to block non-green (i.e. reliable) energy sources in NJ and the whole USA for years. Rather than using natural gas, he though sniffing his own farts might be a reliable source of energy. Did he actually believe the propaganda from the Bloomberg New Energy consultancy funded by manufacturers in China? Or he just thought that Americans should just learn to live with less electricity like the peasants who live near his Italian villa?
Bonging spent years spreading conspirarcy theories about the government and when given the chance to prove those theories he ran
It is concerning that some individuals are deliberately attempting to undermine President Trump’s presidency by falsely claiming that inflation is higher than reported.
It is crucial to recognize that the current economic situation is complex and multifaceted. While inflation may be a concern, it is essential to consider other factors that are also influencing the economy.
For instance, rental and house prices in regions outside the Northeast are experiencing significant declines. Tariffs have already led to a temporary price increase, which is now being absorbed into the overall cost of goods and services. Additionally, the reduction in gasoline prices is expected to lower the cost of every economic transaction. Furthermore, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in years, and productivity is on the rise, which is likely to counteract inflationary pressures.
Given these factors, it is important to avoid prematurely worrying about inflation. Instead, we should focus on the potential risks associated with deflation, which could arise if liquidity continues to tighten and leads to a major battle of deflation. While it is understandable that some individuals may be concerned about affordability, it is crucial to be cautious about the consequences of price drops, as demonstrated by the experiences of countries like China.
VSG: Like I said hurting his pocketbbok.
West Virginia poll
Opinion of the affordable care act
Approve 70%
Disapprove 30%
Opinion of Obamacare
Approve 30%
Disapprove 70%
Are you quoting someone Pumpkin or did you let AI write that for you?
No One: Sadly, that is how a lot of the Democrat elites view the everyday unwashed common man. They know what’s best for them. It’s tough love. They of course will live their life of privilege and wealth.
12:17 oh look found the imbecile!!!
As I said before, they took the German model which already failed in practice and applied it to our state. Shut down the nuclear and coal plants and hope and pray “clean” energy fills in the gaps. It was already proven they don’t, and in Germany’s case, they are hopelessly dependent on Russian gas. We are hopelessly dependent on PA gas. You couldn’t wait to shut them down to see if your “solution” worked out…that wouldn’t have made any sense right?
I am increasingly frustrated with the notion of affordability entitlement, particularly given the Democrats tendency to politicize this issue. It is unrealistic to expect life to be affordable, especially in highly desirable locations such as New Jersey.
12;19 Oh the fat, balding unemployed stoner is back.
The little simpleton gets offended when anyone criticizes his beloved Democrats.
12:24 yep.
Utilize the provided tools to enhance the quality of your work. The capacity for critical thinking and generating innovative ideas has gained precedence over the mere ability to write. I don’t make the rules…
No One says:
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 pm
Are you quoting someone Pumpkin or did you let AI write that for you?
When someone is dumb enough to refer to “democrats” as elites. I know who I’m talking to. A seriously deficient doooouchbag. Nothing more elite than “not voting” fwiw
The I’m above it all attitude reeeally speaks volumes.
Oh, and for the record, it looks like the GOP has co-opted the “elites” right now.
Billionaires and oligarchs are clearly in the Republican camp.
that’s Bologna’s so called “deep-state” he found out and now quietly quit
Ex says:
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Oh, and for the record, it looks like the GOP has co-opted the “elites” right now.
Billionaires and oligarchs are clearly in the Republican camp.
you sound too flaccid to release said frustration
The Great Pumpkin says:
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 pm
I am increasingly frustrated with the notion of affordability entitlement, particularly given the Democrats tendency to politicize this issue. It is unrealistic to expect life to be affordable, especially in highly desirable locations such as New Jersey.
VSG,
I want affordability too, but you have to come with a realistic and reasonable approach. Can’t sell someone on a false dream.
I do believe with AI, affordability will come, but can’t expect it now.
Ex: You are even more stupid than I thought. I suspect it is all the years of smoking pot, and being unemployed. The fact that you can honestly say that the Democrats are nor elites is just astounding. You are totally blind (stoned).
And yeah, I am above it ll, if by that you mean I wont blindly vote Democratic, and that I condemn both parties. You don’t condemn your beloved Democratic party, and can say with a straight face that all of their candidates are qualified to hold public office.
You are the only douche bag here, that is incapable of having an intelligent conversation and anyone that disagrees with you or says something you don like you lash out at. You fancy yourself some kind of virtuous warrior, against the forces of darkness and you care so deeply that you just cant help yourself and lash out.
Seriously, you are a sad pathetic joke, an unemployed stoner, with absolutely zero self awareness. Get off the pot, get a job, go to the gym, maybe get some therapy, but do something instead of just being a blob.Have a neat day!
“Whoa! The “Trump Media + TAE Tech + Chevron Plasma Fusion play” announcement TODAY comes just 24 hours after the mysterious death of Director of the MIT Plasma & Science Center in Boston ?”
Surprised no one is discussing Trump Social’s foray into nuclear fusion. Look for a huge coming government contract in the coming days.
The Swamp is so drained, it’s overflowing!
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To 3B
Love Ex
Lib: That is funny. Just so you know. I offered sometime back to just have him and I just ignore each others posts, but he declined.
May I interest anyone in a non-fungible token?
Get them while they are HOT!!! I promise yours will be special –
One of a Kind!
#blockchain #ARK #DNA #crypto #tulips #topticker #pumpkin
1:17 the “fuckin” Mona Lisa
1:44 I love u too much for that
One thing is for certain. I ain’t work in’
The Audi goes back on Fri. We’ll collect a check for the Outback.
Passing smog allows me to drive my ol’ M3 for a couple more years – now as a “daily”. Wife asked, can’t you just get a normal car? Answer: !?!!
That’s her Nordic practicality. I considered the RS5 but got some pushback. Like Mr Rodgers said: you gotta know when to fold em.
Historical bubbles like Tulip Mania typically lasted only three to four years. Bitcoin, however, is entering its 16th year of existence. Given its longevity, it is time to stop comparing it to a short-lived speculative bubble.
No One says:
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 am
For a while tulip bulbs were the highest returning assets in human history.
Then it was whatever Cathy Wood owned
Bitcrap should pay you to own it, I still haven’t heard a description of its tangible utility in the real world, but I have heard that it’s expensive and requires real world resources (costs) to maintain – like you have to keep a bunch of computers on for it to even exist, you have to remember your passwords.
I wonder how many bitcoin millionaires have their “riches” evaporate because they get hacked, or they die/lose their memory/etc without ever telling their spouse or kids.
My wife can’t even turn on the AV system without my help. Nobody’s going to help families recover missing bitcoin value. Many will probably never know it existed.
@2:10 Yep, that is for certain you ain’t working
Welp! You don’t appear to be working either tbh
2:47 Oh, don’t worry dude, I am working, and people are working for me. Not that you would understand any of it .
I return to this forum and see the left is in a full rage. Ask for their platform of ideas for 2028 and it will be met with silence or back to TDS.
The indices are green, gas is half what it was under O’Biden, you hear zero about the southern border any longer, the BBB itinerary kicks in 01.01.26, a new Rx will be made available, I’m getting 3 for 1 deals at food stores, CPI comes in cool, we have a national policy framework for AI with a slew of private investment along with the genesis mission for medical advancement, the removal of toxins and dyes from food, trade deals with 15 countries including the UE and China so…. ?
2:54 hahahaha you don’t seem busy. Which is a recipe for disaster in corporate Muricka
3:39 dream on Gary….
3b’s got 5 Indian guys underneath him right now!
Ex: You have no idea what I do. You are simply trying to deflect from the fact that you are an unemployed loser. At least you are available to pick up your wife’s check tomorrow, and her new car. It’s not much but it’s something.
Ex: 5 Indian guys? Just more of your Gay sex fantasies. Not coming to terms with your sexuality probably explains some of your rage.
NJ was dumb to give sales tax exemption to EVs.
I’m happy to have taken full advantage of that. That was an easy $3,500 in my pocket.
However, it generated plenty of more load on the power grid, that we’re all now going to have to pay for.
Pretty sure nobody considered that. After all, power comes from the magic energy fairies that live behind the wall outlet.
That said, they really need to reconsider this heat pump nonsense.
Every day I see these horror stories posted on my local social networks:
“Thought I was going to save money converting from natural gas to a heat pump, got my first bill this winter and my power bill tripled from last year”
Yep.
Now all our power bills are going to triple too. These things easily pull 40-50 amps at 240. Now plug in that Tesla to charge too, and you have a house pulling 100+ amps all night long. Do the math at $3-4 bucks an hour…
If electric goes to $0.25 a kWh, EV owners are going to start to cry as charging costs start moving to parity with gasoline.
Valid points, Grim.
Fast,
Buckle up, baby! Let’s melt some faces. It’s coming sooner than later.
And nice bullish post. You get it.
“I don’t know who needs to hear this still but…
We are not heading into a prolonged bear market.
Bear markets don’t fucking start with:
– Inflation almost at target range
– New Liquidity cycle just started
– High GDP growth with high expectations
– Bank reserves at the bottom
– Alts the most oversold ever already
– BTC.D at 60%
– ETH/BTC mid impulse
– Business cycle contraction for 3 years already
Financial bear markets start at the end of long periods of expansion, not at the start of them.
They start when liquidity begins to tighten after periods of expansion.
When liquidity in the system drops.
That is not where we are.
We are at the end of that cycle, starting a brand new one.
Understand this.”
Grim – Did you get the roof rack option with your Tesla? All you need is a few solar panels..
https://www.dartsolar.com/
That’s what happening with crypto right now. They know what’s coming, and they are doing their damn best to shake people out of their shares at the bottom. It never fails. They try to break the market before they let it rise. They want as few people getting rich as possible. That’s why holding beats traders in any market, not just crypto. They always shake the tree at some point making people so fearful to buy or hold. Did it with real estate in 2009….took people almost a decade to believe in real estate again (real estate moves slowly through cycles, while crypto moves at hyper speed)
punkin,
AI is going to explode and corporate innovation is going to unfold in ways we’ve yet to imagine. 2026 is going to be the 1st inning. I can’t imagine what the next decade will look like.
Nailed it.
That’s the crazy part….we are so early. We can’t even comprehend what kind of innovation is going to take place….and at what pace.
The facts: China vs USA cold war. We are knee deep in it.
The whole world benefits from this no hold’s bar competition. The amount of innovation that is coming from it is unbelievable…
For my high level students: here is the ai version….
Indeed, the situation is remarkable. We are at an unprecedented juncture, where we cannot fully grasp the magnitude of the innovations that will emerge and the pace at which they will occur.
The historical context is the Cold War between China and the United States, which has intensified significantly. This global competition has far-reaching benefits, fostering an environment of relentless innovation. The level of progress being made is truly astonishing.
3:54 you love those hairy asses
Huh – What do you mean If?
“If electric goes to $0.25 a kWh”
Higher usage often means a higher rate. PSEG’s tariff. I have heard of people paying 25 cents and higher that and higher already.
Pumpkin more and more you are starting to sound like Vic Chaos…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8f-BQFo7lw
Pumpkin in a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_blDv0CWE
Lets how the waterboys in here justify this one.
Kennedy Center board votes to rename it ‘Trump Kennedy Center’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/trump-kennedy-center-name
Ex:You would know all about hairy asses from your all your rest stop visits.
3b’s direct report:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4nzgBnyckl/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Ex: You should get some therapy to deal with your sexual frustrations, or to help you come out. It’s clear you have issues. Fat, unemployed and pathetic too. Complete waste.
7:06 3b interviews subordinates for new position:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN-34MxEo8e/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
3b’s underling:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGJQC22xjty/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Ex: Oh if only you knew you sad little simp. Spend his days fantasizing about gay sex. Don’t forget you have to get up early, to pick up your wife’s check and her new car. Don’t forget her dry cleaning too.
To those who celebrate:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSYk2-Bj8Se/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
These energy issues are really indicative of the fact that your country is converting itself into a 3rd world country.
Some truth in this…I guess one could argue that this is MAGA’s goal.
BRT says:
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 pm
These energy issues are really indicative of the fact that your country is converting itself into a 3rd world country.