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☆ High mortgage rates, tight supply and economic uncertainty: Here's what's happening with home prices
  + stars: | 2022-10-04 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Yet home prices are still higher compared with a year ago, and it's unlikely they will fall too steeply. While that has some buyers pulling back, and some sellers lowering what they're asking for, strong demand and tight supplies are supporting prices. Black Knight, a real estate software, data and analytics firm, reported the second straight month of declines in August, with prices down 0.98% from July. Put together, these mark the largest monthly declines in more than 13 years and the eighth largest since at least the early 1990s, Black Knight said. That skews prices higher.
☆ Millennials and Gen Z want to stop a climate catastrophe. But first they have to get elected.
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +24 min
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, told young climate activists in 2019, "You didn't vote for me." AP Photo/Gemunu AmarasingheBut most policy debates aren't genuinely existential in the way climate change is. "Younger Democrats tend to have a much more friendly relationship and response to the party's activist class than older Democrats do." Fossil-fuel interests have played a central role in stymieing progress on climate change for decades. Nearly a decade later, Trump ran for and won the presidency — with Gingrich's early and staunch support — while calling climate change a "hoax."
☆ Leaked documents show Patreon's deals with top TikTokers fell far short of expectations, as it cuts down its creator partnerships team
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Leaked documents suggest Patreon's $1 million deals with TikTokers Larray and Lil Huddy fell short of expectations. Patreon's deals to onboard creators like TikTok megastars Larray and Lil Huddy appear to have fallen far short of expectations, according to company documents obtained by Insider. Creator deals that fell flatAcerbic comedy creator Larri "Larray" Merritt launched in December his Patreon page, where he hosts a platform-exclusive talk show called "The Hot Seat." The total value for Merrit and Hudson's Patreon deals was $1.325 million apiece, according to slides from a company presentation obtained by Insider. "There is no one-size-fits-all answer to creation or membership, and our strategy is ever-evolving," Satterwhite told Insider.
☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
  + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +57 min
Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.
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