05/21/2026 Inflate the Debt Away! PLEASE REFER TO THE BROKER COMMENTARY PAGE FOR UPDATES!! Click Above to Watch Brian’s Afternoon Market Update If you followed my advice and locked up your long-term mortgage rates when I said to you a few years ago, many of you have mortgage rates set at 2-4%. My home mortgage is 2.55%. My farm mortgage is with Farm Credit at 4.1% but they pay a dividend of around 1% which brings the effective rate down to almost 3%. Those were the best fixed rates in my lifetime. I have had people meet me in the street, thanking me, and tell me how much they saved when I had told them to refinance and lock down the low rates. Here is another piece of advice. Do not pay these mortgages off early. The reason why?… Because inflation is now 3.8% and rising. That is higher than our mortgage rates. I do not believe that with $39 trillion in debt, much of which the Treasury has to re-finance soon, that inflation is going down. It is getter harder rather than easier for the US Treasury to be able to find willing buyers of US Treasuries at low rates. They intend…
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