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President Biden announced Thursday that $5.8 billion in student loans would be “canceled” for 78,000 borrowers working in the public sector, bringing his administration’s total student debt write-offs to $143.6 billion. Biden pledged to find other avenues for tackling debt relief last year after the Supreme Court in June blocked…

When a billionaire corporate executive and Senator Bernie Sanders agree on something, it’s worth paying attention. If they had a cozy lunch, there would be more dessert forks than pitched forks. In public, both Sanders and BlackRock BLK CEO Larry Fink agree — America is facing an increasingly urgent “retirement…

A key measure of home-purchase applications slumped last week amid a sharp increase in mortgage rates. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) index of mortgage applications fell 2.3% for the week ended Feb. 9, compared with the previous week, according to new data published Wednesday. The data also showed that the average…

As the owner of one of the leading companies that moves household goods to Mexico, in addition to being asked about the procedure for importing household goods, I get asked all sorts of questions about what it’s like to live in Mexico, such as: What’s the weather like? Answer: Hot…

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