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HousingWire Engage.Marketing 2019 Liveblog – Day 2

Boomers want friends, but millennials want education.

If SunTrust & BB&T’s new post-merger brand Truist was a startup bank, would you hate it less?

HousingWire Engage.Marketing 2019 Liveblog – Day 1

4 Signals Homebuyers May Get Upper Hand Over Sellers This Summer

Linkage: hey washed-up millennials, there’s still hope!

In finance, you're either as excited as you've ever been or as scared as you've ever been.

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No more rockstars: here’s how much U.S. musicians make each year now

The jobs report nobody talks about tells us 2 critical things about the economy

Linkage: Super-low rates might rise again this week

2019 value of U.S. residential real estate market near $30 trillion

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Amazon launches subprime credit card so people can repair their credit (and buy more stuff on Amazon)

One definition says a bubble is when higher prices make people want to buy more, not less.

Linkage: Bidding Wars Over For Most Homebuyers

It’s easy to come up with a story for how you earned your wealth after you earned it.

7 Million U.S. Homeowners Can Refi Right Now. That’s 1 Million More Than Last Week.

Linkage: pot grow houses are the new affordable housing

Weak May Jobs Growth Keeps Mortgage Rates Insanely Low

Linkage: Core Themes June 2019

Homeownership, like other forms of participation in the American dream, increasingly resembles an exclusive country club, with membership predicated on who your parents are and your race.