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“The worst thing about a dog and pony show would be looking up from your TelePrompter and realizing that you’re the goat.”

What’s on your notepad?

Housing Wire: Luxury home sales rise 41.5%, making biggest jump since 2013.

CNBC: Mortgage rates set yet another record low, but applications fall.

MyMove.com: Coronavirus Moving Study: People Left Big Cities, Temporary Moves Spiked In First 6 Months of COVID-19 Pandemic. Temporary move or buy-and-bail? The coming months will tell.

CNBC: Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent.

The Washington Times: Seemingly spontaneous street violence is organized and pursuing a radical political agenda.

The American Spectator: Yelp Cannot Help Itself: It’s now in the denunciation business, as inspired by Black Lives Matter.

The Daily Mail: ‘I might never play again’: Renowned Japanese jazz pianist Tadataka Unno is robbed of his ability to play after being beaten up by teens at Harlem subway station. Faith and follow-through. What happens when kids grow up knowing that their follow-through will always come to nothing – or worse, lead to abuse?

The Daily Wire: NYT: Experts Confident Pandemic To Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected, Trump Efforts ‘Working With Remarkable Efficiency.’

Tall Bachman: Remembering Eddie Van Halen: Three Weeks in ’86.