• The pressure that reveals who you really are,Michelle Berman-Mikel

    The pressure that reveals who you really are

    I don’t know about you, but I seem to face my biggest demons head-on in the midst of a long run on the back farm roads of my little town in Tennessee. There is this constant push and pull throughout my six-plus miles on a Sunday morning where, in one thought, I’m praising myself, feeling like my fee

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  • Mortgage spreads keeping housing demand intact for now ,Logan Mohtashami

    Mortgage spreads keeping housing demand intact for now 

    Mortgage spreads are once again playing our friendly neighborhood housing hero by keeping mortgage rates under 7% in a crazy, hectic year. This has allowed housing to stay intact, sales-wise. While sales in our weekly tracker data have slowed down, as they typically do once mortgage rates get above

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  • Will the negative jobs report hold off a September rate hike?,Logan Mohtashami

    Will the negative jobs report hold off a September rate hike?

    The Fed hawks must feel very awkward today. Before the July Fed meeting, Fed Governor Chris Waller said that if the July CPI report came in hot, a July rate hike would be on the table. Since that day, CPI inflation came in as a big miss, PPI inflation came in as a big miss, and today the jobs number

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