‘My wife and I are both retired’: Do we dip into our $2.3 million fund to pay off our $300,000 mortgage at 2.9%?

Key insight: Stripe bought OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, in an acquisition deal reported to be well above its $1.3 valuation from May of this year. What’s at stake: The purchase strengthens Stripe’s push into agentic commerce by allowing it to capture value from the selection and consumption of AI models. Forward look: The…

The Conference Board said Thursday (Aug. 20) that the Leading Economic Index’s (LEI) six-month growth rate turned positive for the first time in more than four years. The LEI’s six-month growth rate for January to July was positive, with an increase of 0.2%, while that for the previous six-month period was negative, with a decline…

Disney World has long been my dream vacation. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved heading down to Florida and spending time in the parks, jumping on some of my favorite rides like “Soarin’” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Last summer, I decided to switch it up. I’ve heard great things about Dollywood in Tennessee,…

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“I think for brokers, make sure that you own the client before someone else has the opportunity to do so,” Robinson said. Sarita Free, a mortgage agent with Mortgage Powered Financial Group in Norfolk County, Ontario, framed the same point as a daily discipline. “Work your book. I know you’ve probably heard that from other…