Are 40-year mortgages about to become the norm? August 7, 2026
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Are 40-year mortgages about to become the norm? August 7, 2026

B1IntermediateAugust 7, 20261 hr 22 min
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A listener production market stock. This is Motley Fool Money. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. The podcast is even older than Australia's premier online investment club.

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I'm Scott Phillips from The Motley Fool. He is Andrew Page, the man for whom, what can we say, the premier online investment club is named? I'm not sure.

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We can certainly say he is the man who once upon a time woke up like Archimedes, maybe in a bath, maybe not. That's your visual representation if you choose it and said Eureka, I have it and invented strawman.com, the aforementioned premier online investment club.

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