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Hi, everyone and welcome back to another episode of Ready for Retirement. I'm your host,

James Knoll. On today's podcast, we're going to be talking about something that has changed quite a bit in the last several months to a year, and that is mortgage rates.

Mortgage rates, of course, have risen dramatically with the increase in the Fed Funds

rate and the increase in rates as a whole in the U.S. and around the world in the past several

months.

And one of the questions a lot of people have is if you are getting a new mortgage or if for

whatever reason you are financing, there's the talk around should I get

a 30 year rate? Should I get a 15 year rate? What's more effective? So we're going to look at that

and we're going to look at what saves you the most in interest, what saves you the most overall

in light of your overall financial plan. And I think some of the things we'll talk about might

surprise a lot of people in terms of

not seeing things the way most people see things and wanting to make sure we're viewing

things in an accurate light. Before we jump in, just real quick, if you've not already done so,

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