Pinning down the housing market is still a losing game

Don’t Count on Higher Rates to Stall the Housing Market — Stephen Mihm With the expectation that the Federal Reserve is on the cusp of raisi [Bloomberg]( Follow Us [Get the newsletter]( [Don’t Count on Higher Rates to Stall the Housing Market]( — Stephen Mihm With the expectation that the Federal Reserve is on the cusp of raising interest rates, we’re hearing all sorts of predictions about how this will affect the red-hot U.S. housing market, which [just registered]( record-high increases for 2021. Though analysts differ on just how many times the Fed will increase rates — much less how high — the impact on mortgage rates when it does act is a given. What’s less clear, though, is whether rising rates will undermine the housing market by raising the cost of borrowing. Read the [whole thing](. [San Francisco Shows Democrats Have a Seismic Challenge Ahead]( — Michael R. Bloomberg [New Covid Variants Complicate the Question of Vaccine Mandates]( — Faye Flam [The Almighty Brent Oil Benchmark Is Broken]( — Javier Blas [Singapore Won’t Displace Hong Kong as a Financial Center]( — Rachel Rosenthal [A Loss of Prosecutors Isn’t Necessarily a Win for Trump]( — Timothy L. O’Brien [The Federal Reserve Is Veering Toward a Hard Landing]( — Lisa Abramowicz [China’s Challenge to the U.S. Is So Much More Than Cold War 2]( — Tobin Harshaw [Metaverse Harassment Doesn’t Bode Well for Zuck’s Dreams]( — Parmy Olson [Why I Quit as FDIC Innovation Chief: Technophobia]( — Sultan Meghji More From Bloomberg Opinion Here’s what else we’ve been talking about this week. - Listen: [Russia and Ukraine discussion]( with Lisa Abramowicz and Javier Blas - Listen: [Russia and Ukraine discussion]( with David Fickling and Clara Ferreira Marques - Listen: [Russia and Ukraine discussion]( with Bobby Ghosh, Therese Raphael and Leonid Bershidsky - Listen: “A Long Time in Finance” with Jonathan Ford: [Our Friend The Atom?]( - Listen: “Follow the Science” with Faye Flam: [Covid Threat Lingers, Society Turns the Page with Dan Barouch]( This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership. Like Bloomberg Opinion Today? [Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access and get much, much more](. You’ll receive our unmatched global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. [Learn more](. You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Bloomberg.com]( | [Contact Us]( [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( | [Ad Choices]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022