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High-yield savings accounts have great APYs right now, but their rates may go down over time.
  • High-yield savings accounts have



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Townhouses on the Upper West Side of New York City.
  • New York City is facing down a housing shortage, all while some apartments disappear.
  • Around 50,000 multi-family row houses have been consolidated to become one- or two-family homes.
  • Combining apartments isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is concerning during a housing shortage.

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The Gateway Arch, St Louis, Missouri.
  • The Midwest is falling behind other regions in terms of real wage growth.
  • Median wage growth for the Midwest was just 0.4% from 2019 to 2022, compared to 5.7% in the Northeast.
  • Declines in unionization and a lack of minimum wage raises have kept wage growth low.

The Midwest may have the lowest unemployment rate of any US region, but it


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Our experts answer readers' home-buying questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess mortgages). In some cases, we receive a commission from our partners; however, our opinions are our own.

Mortgage affordability is at its lowest level in over two decades. Rates just keep climbing, with 30-year mortgage rates hovering near 8%.

Rates will come down eventually. But for those who



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Texts is a messaging app... for all your messaging apps. | Image: Texts

Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind of acquisition: it’s buying Texts, a universal messaging app, for $50 million.

Texts is an app for all your messaging apps. You can use it to log in to



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Elon Musk's EV firm is being investigated by the Department of Justice.
  • Tesla disclosed in its quarterly report that it had been subpoenaed by the Department of Justice.
  • The company said it was asked for information on personal benefits and vehicle range, among others.
  • In July, Reuters reported that Tesla set up a secret team to cancel appointments related to driving-range



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Media companies are in the business of selling nostalgia — and it's because Americans are lonely.

In 2010, the Walt Disney Company remade "Alice in Wonderland," kicking off a run of 14 live-action remakes of their animated classics that would gross the company $3.2 billion at the domestic box office over the following decade. That same year, eyeing the coming conclusion of


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