Pop-up stores are popping up all over! This Christmas season, many mall owners are allocating about 5% of their leasable space to tenants that are "here today, gone tomorrow"--housed in white plastic modules inside spaces vacated by big tenants like Macy's and the Gap.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports there may be trouble brewing in multi-family and Commercial Real Estate as a stealth provision of the Dodd-Frank bill kicks in before Donald Trump takes office... Then Steve points out how to increase your income and lower your fees with a new type of annuity benefit rider with a 20% benefit bonus.