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50-year mortgages, falling real wages, and doing your rideshare due diligence

50-year mortgages, falling real wages, and doing your rideshare due diligence

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It’s … Indicators of the Week! We look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news and bring them to you.

On today’s episode: The cost of living is outstripping wage growth for most of us, the math behind the Trump administration’s proposed 50-year mortgages, and how we’re just giving Uber and Lyft free money

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