Lead generation might be the lifeblood of your business, but money is the oxygen. Without a keen understanding of how your money works, your business can't breathe. When managed properly, your cash flow makes vacations a reality, gives you the flexibility to choose when and how to work and so much more.

New member benefit SoFI offers exclusive rates on loan products for financial milestones, such as home buying and student loans, which you can extend to your clients.

Apparently, only about a third of Americans care that TikTok is China-controlled and would have to turn over Americans' information to Beijing if asked, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Meanwhile, TikTok must again face a lawsuit in Indiana over gathering information and failing to protect children online, while the clock ticks on a deadline to ban the platform from the U.S. unless it's sold.

Croissant has launched an iOS app that allows social media users to streamline cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads with tools like threaded posts and image attachments. Developers hope to expand the platform to iPad and Mac, as well as to introduce additional features such as scheduled posts and username auto-completion.

Creators on TikTok can engage viewers with "Flip Stories," a new tool that intrigues, offers sneak peeks of upcoming products or events and exclusive offers. Creators can make Flip Stories by either tapping the + button to access the create page or on their profile photo, and see which viewers clicked for the flip side of their stories.

NAR is mobilizing to make home affordability, a top concern for voters, a central theme in the general election.

The Commerce Department reported that construction spending decreased by 0.1% in August, contrary to the expectations of economists surveyed by Reuters, who had forecast a slight increase. The decline was due in part to a 1.5% decrease in single-family projects. Despite the monthly decrease, construction spending was up 4.1% compared with the same period last year.

Buyers in Manhattan's home market are increasingly relying on mortgages, with Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel noting that "cash buyers aren't as dominant as they were." Closings for condos and co-ops rose 6.7% in the third quarter compared with the prior three months, according to Miller Samuel and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has allocated over $22 million in grants to combat housing discrimination, aiming to address racial inequities in the housing system. The funds will support fair housing organizations in their efforts to educate the public about their rights under the Fair Housing Act and improve enforcement.

Employers added 143,000 jobs to private payrolls in September, up from August's revised tally of 103,000, according to payroll service provider ADP. The numbers are ahead of economists' expectations of 120,000 new jobs. While businesses continued hiring, wage growth slowed, with annual raises for existing employees dipping to 4.7% and those who changed jobs seeing a significant drop to 6.6%.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin has expressed cautious optimism about the economy but has stressed that the effort to control inflation is far from over. "There is still work to do on inflation," Barkin says. "While down from its high, inflation remains above our 2% target. I don't expect 12-month core inflation to drop much further until 2025, as we are still lapping low inflation numbers from late last year."