Why “mortgage” is being discussed
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If a vineyard is just a hobby for Mr Uber-Rich, who doesn't care about losing money, that argument makes sense. But the article devotes a whole lotta words to buying and operati…
by bell-cot · Oct 31, 2026
i don't mean to engage in this rhetoric where you have to worry about being flamed. i'm just asking you to sincerely answer the question and not worry about how it looks. for ex…
by doctorpangloss · Oct 30, 2026
Okay, but like with the banking myth there was no law or official government policy that specifically prohibited black ownership. And the only legally enforceable impediment aft…
by wahern · Oct 30, 2026
There's also a pretty big morale hit for the people who fall below the remuneration cutoff of peers they are almost as good as or feel they are better than. I've seen a few diff…
by hinkley · Oct 30, 2026
> In 2008 the USA managed to export the shit assets generated by the mortgage boom, mostly to Europe I didn't know about this. How did it work?
by criddell · Oct 30, 2026
The big question is: who's going to get wiped, and what will that mean? In 2008 the USA managed to export the shit assets generated by the mortgage boom , mostly to Europe. The…
by sgt101 · Oct 30, 2026
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A mortgage loan or simply mortgage, in civil law jurisdictions known also as a hypothec loan, is a loan used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate, or by existing property owners to raise funds for any purpose while putting a lien on the property being mortgaged. The loan is "secured" on the borrower's property through a process known as mortgage origination. This means that a legal mechanism is put into place which allows the lender to take possession and sell the secured property to pay off the loan in the event the borrower defaults on the loan or otherwise fails to abide by its terms. The word mortgage is derived from a Law French term used in Britain in the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge" and refers to the pledge ending (dying) when either the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure. A mortgage can also be described as "a borrower giving consideration in the form of a collateral for a benefit (loan)". Read more on Wikipedia