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Opportunity cost: the changing math of mortgages
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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. For decades it made sense to slowly pay down a mortgage over time, but that is no longer the case. Rising interest rates mean the smart thing to do is pay off your mortgage early.
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