Thursday, April 30, 2009

Taking Kyl Seriously

His opposition to the Durbin amendment was notionally about how it might increase interest rates. It wouldn't, because it would've applied only to existing loans (it would likely hardly impact interest rates anyway, but whatever). More generally Kyl seems to think the problem is that home prices need to get back to where they were. This is pretty nutty, given that at the height of the bubble prices were pretty unaffordable.