Mortgage Operating Model After AI, Borrower Evidence First

Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced last week and led by Insight Partners, will help Kastle expand its engineering, product and go-to-market teams, deepen its platforms’ capabilities and accelerate deployments with financial institutions. “AI has given financial institutions a historic…

Early Strength Thwarted by Data and Resilience in Equities Tue, Nov 3 2026, 4:17 PM Early Strength Thwarted by Data and Resilience in Equities There are several ways to view today’s bond market movement and none of them are terribly important. Sharply lower oil prices had a small, friendly impact on bonds…

Gary Stevenson, the economics commentator and YouTuber known for advocating wealth taxation on high-value property, has announced he is stepping back from his YouTube channel citing exhaustion and burnout. Stevenson, who has accumulated 1.6 million subscribers on his Garys Economics channel since its 2020 launch, has been a prominent voice calling for a 2% annual…

The dust is beginning to clear on the Houthi attack on Thursday on Saudi Arabia’s east-west pipeline and the picture isn’t good. The above picture is the ‘after’ and here is the purported ‘before’ image of a pumping station. Evidently, ‘several’ of these were hit in the western part of the country. I want to…

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Surveillance pricing is now banned in New Jersey, and new electronic shelf labels are under a one-year moratorium. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act into law, saying it will protect the state’s shoppers from discriminatory surveillance pricing, according to a Thursday (July 23) press release from the Governor’s Office. The new law prevents businesses from…