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...only natural for folks to take interest rates personally. Even though mortgage rates have remained low through the successive hikes, some time (soon?) the ride is going to be over. Today, a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with no upfront points averages about 6 1/8%, according to Bestinfo Inc. - rising 1/8 of a percentage point on Monday - while adjustable rate mortgages are slightly lower. As short-term interest rates rise, so should mortgage rates - though nothing is certain about the real estate market anymore, it seems. Long-term interest rates actually declined over the past year, even...
...life at camp, on the other hand, has demanded no upfront commitment, as a septet of my closest friends took it upon themselves to recommend me, without my consent, to the position of Head Counselor of Marksmanship...
...acknowledge upfront that I don’t like buses. I find them slow, unreliable, motion-sickness-inducing, and, frankly, confusing: the last time I attempted to take one I missed my stop and ended up in a deserted Dudley Station—not a cheerful situation. In both my native New York and adopted Boston, subways are almost always the way to go. Otherwise, I walk. Fast...
...least the schadenfreude, begins later today with NBC's upfront at Radio City Music Hall. Don't touch that dial. There'll be plenty of time for that once the new shows actually premiere...
...unusual move, Reilly and Zucker -whose network presented first at the upfronts -repeatedly stressed that they could switch things around depending on what the competition announced. Here's the schedule! We love it! Except we might not love it by the end of the week! But don't worry -we've got a whole stack of schedules where this one came from! (This despite the fact that the whole purpose of the upfront is to give advertisers a concrete schedule to pay to advertise on -but hey, it's not my money, so not my problem...