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Any lender or mortgage loan originator hoping for lower rates to spur business is learning that hope is not a strategy. “Rob, you’re always talking about inflation, so here’s an example of wage inflation: In the Bay Area we just paid a plumber $212/hour to install a kitchen faucet. Granted, he has decades of experience, but still…” The markets are “tariff-ied”: inflation is expected to increase, shipping is down, and growth has slowed… after all, someone has to pay for the increased cost of goods (although who knows what will happen given the back and forth in the courts). In addition, I have not heard a single person suggest that privatizing Freddie…