mortgage
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Real-estate agents and mortgage lenders have reported that ever since then, open houses have gone quiet and buyers have stopped their search.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 12, 2026
“We have seen mortgage rates continue to increase,” which is hurting affordability, he added.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 12, 2026
It could bring down petrol prices, energy bills, government borrowing costs, and mortgage costs too.
From BBC β Nov. 12, 2026
His job in financial services allowed him to get an adjustable-rate mortgage with a lower initial rate of 6.15%.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 12, 2026
The first thing Mike Burry needed, if he was going to buy insurance on a big pile of subprime mortgage bonds, was to create some kind of standard, widely agreed-upon contract.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The ECB is the central bank for the 21 countries that use the euro, setting interest rates that influence borrowing costs across the economy, from mortgages to credit-card repayments.
From Barron's β Nov. 13, 2026
On housing, Kitchen Table proposes government-insured mortgages with a down payment of just $1,000 for first-time buyers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 12, 2026
Some hospitals provide money to their medical employees through forgivable loans, because doctors and nurses often have high levels of student debt that make it tough to qualify for traditional mortgages.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 11, 2026
The big losers from a rate rise are those who borrow money, and specifically those on variable rate mortgages.
From BBC β Nov. 5, 2026
He asked the people most directly involved in the decision to sell credit default swaps on consumer loans what percentage of those loans were subprime mortgages.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Not terribly long ago, Cleveland mortgaged its future believing that Watson was its savior.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 19, 2026
After poor ticket sales, producers were reported to have mortgaged property to cover debts.
From Barron's β Dec. 22, 2025
Suzy Spilling and her husband Colin invested in four rental properties to fund their retirement - including two flats in Salford "mortgaged to the hilt".
From BBC β Feb. 28, 2025
The couple mortgaged their Hollywood Hills home again and again to finance his films, she said, in an effort to remain independent from the tight reins of Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 14, 2024
He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
“Russia would be further mortgaging its future for the sake of military gains,” said Alexander Kolyandr, a director at the consulting firm Eurasia Group.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 23, 2026
Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.
From Barron's β Oct. 14, 2025
The cash and perks ICE is dangling will inevitably draw more people, experts said, but some warned that newly minted deportation officers should be careful about mortgaging their future.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2025
Migrants from Africa, Asia and South America are mortgaging their family land, selling their cars or borrowing money from loan sharks to embark on long, often treacherous journeys to reach the United States.
From New York Times β Jan. 31, 2024
Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family’s rice fields around the Ayemenem House.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing mortgage
Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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Personal Finance and Financial Literacy - Introductory
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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