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EPISODE · Jul 1, 2026 · 36 MIN

The Housing Crash Worse Than 2008 Is Already Here | Melody Wright

from WTFinance · host Anthony Fatseas

The Mercantilist Restoration - https://anthonyfatseas.substack.com/p/the-mercantilist-restoration-howInterview recorded - 30th of June, 2026On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Melody Wright. Melody Wright is a real estate, macro, and technology analyst who began her mortgage career at GMAC ResCap in 2006 and helped manage the historic ResCap bankruptcy. She publishes the M3 Melody Substack. During our conversation we spoke about her thoughts on the real estate market, why it could be worse than 2008, lowest sales in 30 years, how experts have it so wrong and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:33 - Overview of housing markets?4:30 - Inventory overload9:05 - Low rates locked in12:54 - Debt to income worse than 200814:44 - Slow sales16:42 - Experts gotten it wrong18:54 - Homebuilders22:12 - Market impact?24:40 - PE exposure26:12 - How bad?28:20 - Government intervention30:32 - Inflation price32:47 - Demographic impact34:20 - One message to takeaway?Melody Wright - X - https://x.com/m3_melodySubstack - https://m3melody.substack.com/WTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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