TAMPA, Fla. (NewsNation) — Google searches for "help with mortgage" recently climbed to their highest level since 2009, but that doesn't mean a housing bubble is about to burst.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren drew attention to the spike earlier this month, replying to an X post that featured a Google Trends chart, calling it "Donald Trump's housing market."

NewsNation reviewed Google Trends data and confirmed that search activity for "help with mortgage" (not in quotes) hit the highest level in August since 2009. That's slightly at odds with the chart Warren shared, which showed U.S. search interest peaking in 2008.

But whether the prior peak came in 2008 or 2009 matters less than what the trend suggests today.

Any comparison to the Great Recession is bound to raise alarms, but there

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