mortgage
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Steep housing prices and mortgage rates have put homes out of reach for many young adults.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Ultralow mortgage rates and pandemic-era government stimulus cause an increase in home-buying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Private equity consists of buying companies with gigantic amounts of debt, like buying a home with a massive mortgage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
For example, someone refinancing their mortgage or buying a property for the first time could face higher mortgage rates.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
You could pull these prospectuses, and just quickly check the pulse of what was happening in the subprime mortgage portion of the originate-and-sell industry.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The program would not be funded by taxpayers but instead by the interest charged to borrowers on their down-payment loans, also referred to as second mortgages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Leaving the rates unchanged means rates on things like new mortgages or business loans are also less likely to change.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Tens of thousands of homeowners have adjustable-rate mortgages from years ago that are now resetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Back then, many homeowners were holding adjustable-rate mortgages with payments that were ballooning, meaning that they would soon be facing a much higher mortgage payment that they could not afford.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
He ran Morgan Stanley’s asset-backed bond trading, which effectively put him in charge of the firm’s bets on subprime mortgages.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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To finance “I Am Frankelda,” Roy and Arturo mortgaged two homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Overindebted railroad builders and heavily mortgaged farmers demanded a less rigorous, more forgiving silver unit, and debate raged between the adherents of “soft” and “hard” money—between silver and gold, inflation and solidity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Put differently, the average mortgaged homeowner now spends more than a full month’s housing payment each year on insurance.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
To raise the money for the $100 million-plus production, he mortgaged his seaside Santa Barbara, California, estate.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024
She mortgaged her property and borrowed money from a neighbor for her journey.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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The downside for teams that use this tactic is that if they don’t win, they’re mortgaging their futures for a fruitless present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The group’s longtime leader, Carol Schatz, told the City Council at a public hearing that the city was mortgaging its future in a “misguided attempt to buy temporary peace with activists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
But if they stay in an attempt to hold on to a core piece of identity, are they mortgaging their future?
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
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
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Vocabulary lists containing mortgage
Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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