MOScout Sunday 6: Comparing Costs - Speaking to Dead - Halloween Memes and more...

1. Higher interest rates don’t impact average folks with locked in mortgage rates.  But they’re probably biting small businesses.

Source: Scott Davis.

2. Why we complain about the price of tuition and child care, but not the cost of TVs and clothes.

Source: Full Stack Economics.

3. Part of the economy’s resilience: old folks.

Source: Wall Street Journal.

4. German is the most common language in Missouri (after English and Spanish).

Source: Visual Capitialist.

5. With Halloween on Tuesday, a reminder that lots of folks are in touch with their relatives who have passed on.

Source: Pew Research.

6. Sorry to pick on Jay Ashcroft, but I bet we’ll see lots of these spoof memes in the next couple of days…