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Why Your Mortgage Is 7%

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One activity has students build a stay-or-sell calculator from the loan-payment formula and the guide's thresholds, under 1 percent means sell and over 3 percent means stay, then test it on the four households. A question asks why the September 2024 Fed cut barely moved mortgage rates.

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