"Their attitude is that we don't get it, we are flat-earth people, and they are in a hurry without time for all this, " says the publisher group's president, former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder.

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The sound of feet, of bare soles, flat African feet pat-patting the earth.

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Today's mortgage rates of around 5% are as low as we have seen since the late 1950s - and no economist (whether of the "flat earth" variety or not) expects interest rates to rise significantly.

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