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Susan Toste writes to Ira Selwin who sends me (see how these things work?), “Can you believe it is 364 days until Christmas and people already have their lights up?” Goldman Sachs asks interviewees, "How many square feet of pizza are eaten in the U.S. each year?" (The trick is to work through the logic, not necessarily come up with the right answer.) Learning math is something that everyone does, to one degree or another, and doesn’t typically go onto a resume. (I learned math a whole different way than they do now in China or Japan.) What’s on your resume? How about Scapulothoracic Hypermobility? The Financial Times reports that “Banks (worldwide) shed 60,000 jobs in one of worst years for cuts since financial crisis.” I regularly receive questions about the number of LOs who have left our business. “Plenty” doesn’t ever satisfy the person asking the question, but I don’t know the exact number. Man ....
“If you know someone who has an intense fear of store Santas, would you say they were suffering from Claus-trophobia?” For individuals or companies, do you have a fear of being hacked? Under the heading of “It’s not if, but when…” First American “has experienced a cybersecurity incident. In response, we’ve taken certain systems offline [like the main website above] and working to return to normal business operations as soon as possible.” First American owns First American Title and also owns ACI, one of the largest appraisal software providers. This outage stopped appraisers using ACI from having the ability to upload appraisal reports to FLS. Some lenders acted quickly. Fairway Independent, for example, stated that if a Fairway borrower’s closing was negatively impacted, corporate would cover any hotel, meal, or storage expenses incurred by their clients. (Today’s podcast can be found here, and this week ....