Transcript of Bessent Floods Debt, Warsh Hikes: Mortgages Hit 7.45%!
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0:00If you're sitting at your kitchen table0:01this Saturday morning browsing real0:03estate listings or maybe you're getting0:05ready to drive out to an open house,0:07stop. I want you to stop and pull up an0:10actual lender rate sheet first because0:13yesterday afternoon the daily mortgage0:15commitments hit 7.45% 45%. And the0:19number you have been told to wait for,0:21that supposed 5% mortgage every guest on0:24cable television has been promising you0:26for 2 years now, my friends, it's0:29officially dead. By the end of this0:31video, I want you to understand exactly0:33why that advertised rate on the front0:35window of the brokerage office is a0:37mathematical fantasy. The shadow data0:40inside the 10-year Treasury spread that0:42exposes why the lender shock absorber is0:45completely exhausted and the0:47multi-billion dollar collision between0:49Scott Besson's Treasury issuance and the0:51secondary mortgage desks that's about to0:54cost you an extra $6,000 a year in pure0:58interest. My friends, if you've ever1:01walked into a discount store and seen an1:03appliance with a bright yellow sales1:05sticker plastered over the price tag,1:07well, you know the routine. It says $4001:10in bright red ink. You pick up the box,1:13you carry it to the register, and when1:15the clerk scans the barcode, well, the1:17register beeps and prints out $650.1:22You point to the yellow sticker and the1:24clerk looks at you, peels the sticker1:26off with his thumbnail and shows you the1:29factory price stamped in permanent blank1:32ink underneath. He says, "Well, the1:35promotion expired yesterday. You pay1:38what's under the sticker." Wo. That is1:40precisely what is happening to the1:42American mortgage market over the last1:4572 hours. The promotional sticker, my1:48friends, it just got peeled right off.1:51So, let's start with the actual numbers1:53here because this is where mainstream1:55media remains committed to giving you1:57pretty much outdated narratives. Last2:00Thursday, Freddy Mack released its2:02weekly primary mortgage market survey.2:05They printed 7.03%.2:08And immediately immediately, every real2:10estate blog and cable segment ran2:12headlines saying mortgage rates are2:14hovering around 7%. And you've been2:16hearing this for quite some time. It's2:18not just the 72 hours, right? Here is2:20what nobody on television is telling you2:22right now. That Freddy Mack survey cut2:25off its data uh collection on Wednesday2:28morning. It is actually a2:30backwardlooking artifact. While the2:32media was paring that stable that stale2:35survey, my friends, institutional2:37trading desks in lower Manhattan, where2:39my office is, were watching the2:41benchmark 10-year Treasury yield. It2:44surged through 5.1% and uh and printed2:48an intraday peak of 5.17%2:52on Thursday afternoon. By 4:00 on2:55Thursday afternoon, actual daily lock2:57quotes for the conventional 30-year2:59paper touched 7.45%.3:03That, my friends, is the highest print3:04of this entire year. And millions of3:06buyers are walking straight into a rate3:08trap that they never saw coming. Guys,3:12we're going to have to dig further into3:14this, but before we do, please click3:16like and don't forget to subscribe. It's3:19really important to be in the know about3:20this stuff. Even if you're not buying a3:22home right now, you better pay attention3:24to it. Now, let us start with the3:26critical question that every American is3:28asking right now. How do we get here?3:31Well, existing home sales are sitting at3:33multi-deade lows. Buyers are pretty much3:36tapped out. Inventory in key metros is3:39accumulating. Under traditional economic3:41theory, when demand crashes, well, the3:44price of borrowing should fall to3:46stimulate activity. So, why are mortgage3:49rates marching straight toward 7 and a3:52half% instead of falling back to the 5%3:55that we all would love to see right now?3:58Well, because your mortgage rate is not4:00set by local real estate agents and it4:02is not set by what home buyers can4:05actually afford. It's set by the4:07mechanical plumbing of the secondary4:10bond market. When you close on a home4:12and sign a 30-year note, your lender4:14does not keep that mortgage in a4:16basement safe. They bundle that loan4:18with thousands of others into a mortgage4:21back security. It's called an MBS. MBS4:24paper. It's backed by Fanny May or4:27Freddy Mack. And they sell it to Wall4:29Street asset managers, pension funds,4:31and foreign reserve accounts. And those4:33Wall Street desks measure your mortgage4:35against one foundational benchmark.4:38Guess what that is? The 10-year United4:40States Treasury note. Historically, you4:43go back 40 years, the spread between a4:4530-year conventional mortgage and the4:4710-year Treasury yield sits right around4:50170 to 180 basis points. That's 1.7 and4:551.8% in normal speak. That spread is the4:58lender's risk premium. It basically5:01covers prepayment volatility, servicing5:04overhead, and balance sheet friction.5:07During the peak panic of 2022 and 2023,5:10that spread blew out to more than three5:13full percentage points or 300 basis5:16points. Back then, lenders were5:18panicking about Fed volatility, if you5:20remember. So, they charged an enormous5:22premium. And for two years, the entire5:25housing industry prayed for that spread5:27to normalize again. And they told you5:30when the spread compresses back to5:32historical norms, mortgage rates will5:33drop by more than a full percentage5:35point, literally overnight. Well, my5:37friends, guess what? The spread5:39normalized, and it did not save you at5:42all. Now, let's pull open the shadow5:44data. You know, I love the shadow data.5:46This is the part that should make your5:48blood boil. Go pull the spread data from5:51Thursday's close when the 10-year5:53Treasury trading at 5.17%5:56and daily mortgage commitments at 7.45%.5:59Well, the mortgage spread sits near 2.286:03percentage points. And against agency6:05MBS benchmarks, right, primary to6:08secondary spreads are tightening down6:10near their multi-year floors. What does6:14that mean in trading floor English?6:16Well, it means the shock absorber that6:19we have in there is well completely gone6:21at this moment. When a spread is fat and6:23wide, a rise in treasury yields can6:25absorb be absorbed by the lender. The6:28lender can squeeze their margin a little6:30bit just to keep quotes stable and keep6:33folks who are borrowing online. But when6:36the spread is already so compressed near6:38its structural baseline, there's6:40literally no room left to squeeze.6:42Literally every single basis point move6:45on the government bond market now passes6:47straight through to your preapproval6:50letter dollar for dollar. Now I've put6:53videos out on this in the past, but it6:54is so important. It's becoming even more6:57important as the base rates are rising.7:00That's why I felt like I had to cover it7:02again. Guys, who do you think is driving7:04those Treasury yield to 24-year highs? H7:07before we get back into it, I want to7:08tell you about something that's become7:10an important part of my routine. That's7:12my Fit Nexus Somnipods 3. You guys know7:16the crazy hours that I keep. Wall Street7:18starts really early, especially for me.7:20And research goes really late,7:22especially for me. 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Guys, you know8:16how important that is these days. So, if8:19you're putting in long hours like I am,8:21and you want to start taking your sleep8:22more seriously, check out Bit Nexus8:24Somnipods 3 at the link below and use8:27code WS Truth Bombs 10 to save 10 bucks8:30on your next order. Who doesn't love to8:33save 10 bucks?8:35Well, that brings us to the Titan clash8:37at the very top of the capital8:40structure. On one side, you have8:42Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. Guys,8:45Washington is running a $2 trillion8:47annual deficit, in case you haven't8:49heard. To finance that mountain of red8:51ink, the Treasury is flooding primary8:53dealer desks with record auction volumes8:56of fresh debt every single week. On the8:59other side, well, you have Federal9:01Reserve Chair Kevin Walsh. Just last9:04week, Wars and the FOMC raised the9:06federal funds rate unanimously to9:09between 3.75 and 4%. That's old news9:12right now. And War stood at the podium9:14and stated pretty flatly that he is not9:17in the forward guidance business. He9:19doesn't believe broad financial9:20conditions are restrictive. That's the9:22important part. And he is letting9:24quantitative tightening run on schedule.9:27So, the Treasury is pushing historic9:29debt supply into the market while the9:31central bank refuses to buy a single9:34bond or lower the cost of reserves. And9:37caught in the crossfire are the Wall9:39Street mortgage desks. Primary dealers9:42are so congested with unsold treasury9:44paper and volatile assets that they9:47simply cannot take on mortgage duration9:49without demanding high yields. And the9:53result, well, the price of long-term9:55money in America has struck a permanent9:58reset. Now, let's bring this right to10:01your checking account because this is10:03where the math shuts down the kitchen10:06table. The kitchen table where you and I10:08like to have our conversations. Let me10:11run the pocketbook arithmetic on a10:14standard home purchase. Take a $400,00010:18home, put 20% down. you're borrowing10:20$320,000,10:22right? Okay. Just back in early February10:25when mortgage rates briefly dipped near10:286%, your monthly principal and interest10:30payment was about, I don't know, $1,91810:34a month. Now, plug in yesterday's or10:37excuse me, Thursday's 7.45% print. Well,10:40your principal and interest jumps to10:43$2,22610:44a month, my friends. That is $380 a10:48month. in pure cash, literally10:51evaporating from your family budget.10:54That's $3,69610:57a year over the life of a 30-year loan.11:00Well, that difference is more than11:02$110,00011:05in plain raw interest. $110,00011:10extracted out of your retirement savings11:12and handed to a serer for the exact same11:16house on the exact same street. And that11:19doesn't even account for property tax11:21reassessments and homeowner insurance11:23premiums that are up 20 to 40% across11:26the sunb belt over the past 2 years. And11:29here is the hidden trap that's about to11:31hit millions of existing homeowners. The11:34temporary buy down and adjustable rate11:36reset. Well, over the past 2 years,11:38millions of buyers who couldn't afford a11:407% rate were talked into so-called11:43temporary 21 buyowns or 5-year11:47adjustable rate mortgages. The sales11:50pitch was pretty uh seductive. Marry the11:53house, date the rate, start at 4.5% this11:57year, 5.5% next year, and you can and in12:01year three, you can just refinance when12:03the Fed cuts rate back to 4%.12:06Well, my friends, in case you haven't12:09noticed, well, year three has officially12:10arrived, and the Fed did not cut rates12:13for four to 4%. They just hiked them to12:164% on overnight funds, and 10-year12:19Treasury is at, as I just said, well, at12:22least it was earlier later in the week,12:245.17%.12:26Those temporary rate buy downs are12:28literally expiring uh at the end of12:30autumn. Those borrowers are getting12:32letters from their servicesers informing12:34them that their monthly housing payment12:36is jumping by $500 to $800 a month and12:41they can't refinance. Why? Because12:43refinancing today means locking in a12:467.45%12:48mortgage rate. The exit ramp has been12:50completely walled off. Now, I owe you12:53the other side because I always give you12:56the other side. And that's really12:57important, my friends. Um, we deal in13:00objective reality and the tape never13:03lies. First, demographic pressure in13:05America is still intense. Millions of13:08millennials in their prime household and13:10uh formation years are willing to make13:12enormous lifestyle sacrifices, taking on13:15second jobs or relocating across state13:17lines just to secure a primary13:20residence. That is an important factor.13:22Second, inventory of existing homes13:24remains tight by historical comparisons.13:27Homeowners sitting on 2.75% mortgages13:30from 2020 are effectively locked in13:33golden handcuffs refusing to list their13:35houses, which prevents a nationwide13:37inventory flood from collapsing resale13:40acting asking prices. And finally,13:42third, a severe credit contraction hits13:45the corporate sector over the next two13:47quarters. We could witness a classic13:49flight to safety selloff in equities13:51that sends flight capital rushing into13:5410-year treasuries, driving yields13:56temporarily back down to hopefully maybe13:59even 4.5%. But don't let anyone convince14:02you that we're returning to the low14:03mortgage regime of the last decade. That14:06world has completely closed. The14:08structural spread has narrowed. The14:10Federal Reserve has ceased purchasing14:12mortgage backed assets. and the United14:14States Treasury must issue trillions of14:16dollars in new sovereign debt every year14:19just to keep the lights on in Washington14:21DC. So the era of artificial14:24affordability, my friends, is really14:26over. So what do you actually do with14:28this at your kitchen table? First, stop14:31basing your financial life on a14:32refinancing fantasy. If you can't14:35comfortably afford a home at 7.5% on14:37your base salary alone, I'm sorry to14:39tell you this. Don't buy it. Don't count14:41on a 2027 refinance to save your family14:44balance sheet. It's not a prudent thing14:46to do. Second, audit any variable or14:49adjustable rate debt sitting on your14:50books right now. If you have a home14:52equity line of credit or business line14:54tied to prime, find out its reset date14:56today and develop an aggressive14:58principal acceleration plan. And15:00finally, and third, watch three specific15:02signals next week. Watch the 10-year15:04Treasury yield at 5.1% if it breaks15:07above 5.2%. Conventional mortgage rate15:10sheets will test 7.65%15:12guaranteed before Friday. Watch Freddy15:15Mack's next survey print on Thursday to15:17see how far past 7.03%15:19the lagging metrics surge and watch15:22Treasury auction spreads in the upcoming15:24debt sales. Because if dealers demand15:26even higher concessions to digest15:28Washington's huge deficit, well, your15:30cost of borrowing climbs right along15:33with it. No more shock absorbers. So,15:35your truth bomb for today is this. The15:375% mortgage is not coming back to rescue15:39you, my friends. The lender shock15:41absorber just bottomed out at 2.2815:44points over treasuries. And as long as15:46Washington has to sell trillions in debt15:48into a bond market with no buyers, 7.45%15:52is not a temporary peak. It's the cost15:54of admission. My friends, join me every15:57day for Wall Street Truth Bombs, where I15:59drop them right here before the market16:00figures them
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