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The economy is growing, interest rates have fallen, and private investment has returned.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Back in 2000, as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, entrepreneurs and investors surfing the internet wave insisted it didn’t matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
As bad as it is for the housing market — starts and transactions basically flat for the last three years with mortgage rates over 7%— it can get still get worse.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
She said she used to work in these deprived northern suburbs, where poverty and crime rates are very high, and feared a whole lost generation was criminalising itself through anger and despair.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
One purchasing committee found a large department store which gave us wholesale rates on everything from underwear to baseball gloves.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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