Can mortgage interest rates inflate a housing bubble?

As mortgage rates rise, home sales will decline, and if it goes on long enough, prices will fall.

In rocketry, escape velocity is the speed required to propel an object into a stable orbit. In a housing market, escape velocity is a rate of price and sales volume increase necessary to sustain an...
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