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When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

As of March 12, Freddie Mac reported that the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate was 6.11%. This is 11 basis points higher than last week, and 54 basis points lower than this time last year. In ...