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Wilfredo Garcia Rivera
Brandman University
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In 2007 after coming from Iraq I moved to Fort Campbell, KY. My family move
there with me in January 2008, after school semester was over. We decided to buy a
home since I have all these monies saved from the deployment but soon after that the
housing crisis began and the market crashed. Since then I moved from based to based and
the economy wasn’t doing good. I moved to Joint Base Lewis McChord and when we go
the taxation was so high that a 2,000 sq ft home 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms was 300k. That
kind of macroeconomics affected my finances and dreams of owning a home. And why I
say macroeconomics affected? Because “macroeconomy – consumer and business
spending, price inflation, interest rate movement” (Samuelson & Mark, 2015). This is
important because of the government rates determine what rates the banks will loan for
