Today's Mortgage Terms starting with H

Home Equity Line of Credit:

A type of revolving credit in which your home is used as collateral.

Home Equity Loan:

A revolving line of credit or loan based on the equity in the mortgagor's property. The property is the collateral for the loan, which is usable for any purpose.

Housing and Urban Development (HUD):

A U.S. government agency created to introduce federal housing and community development programs; manages the Federal Housing Administration.

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EPA Coal Decision Levels Playing Field for Wind, Solar - Wired
Building an alt-energy power plant is risky and expensive, but thanks to a new ruling by an Environmental Protection Agency panel, building a coal plant may become riskier and more expensive. The Environmental Appeals Board blocked the EPA from ...

Scare-Mongering on Steroids: NBC Warns Oceans Could Rise 200 Feet! - News Busters
Forget Al Gore's measly 20-foot sea level rise from "An Inconvenient Truth." That's small potatoes compared to the kind of catastrophe Meredith Vieira was talking about last night. Kicking off NBC's Global Alarmism Green Week during the halftime ...

No regular session - Stateline
Several key issues were left on the table as squabbling Alabama legislators — widely criticized last year for their lack of productivity — could not put their differences aside. It even took an $110,000 special session to pass an education budget ...

February 2007 - Times Union Blogs
The Capitol. The seat of state government. Where influential politicians craft laws and crafty lobbyists peddle influence. Where hopeful citizens try to get their voices heard. Get a look behind the scenes at New York politics and statewide campaigns ...

November 2 - November 9 (82) - Dakota Voice
► January 16 - January 23 (1) Bill Harlan has a piece on Page 1 of the local section of the Rapid City Journal today entitled "Is this a ‘push poll’ or a ‘message test’?" (I couldn't find it online). It's about the two " dueling polls ...

2008 (2665) - Dakota Voice
► January 16 - January 23 (1) Brian has a good point here. When I was in the Air Force, I recall one night when a new guy, fresh out of training, came to work on our shift. In military police work, you rely on your "radio" or "portable" quite a bit ...

UN rates best and worst countries to live in - Los Angeles Times Blogs
I couldn’t get into my National Geographic newsletter fast enough this morning. Their headline, UN Rates Best, Worst Countries . I was more curious to see which country they wanted to name as the worst than the best (Iceland). The study came from a ...

Jobless rate bolts to 14-year high of 6.5 percent - Sierra Sun
WASHINGTON – The nation's unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut, far worse than economists expected and stark proof the economy is deteriorating at an alarmingly rapid pace. The new ...

Editorials from around the state - Sierra Sun
It took state lawmakers more than three months past their July 1 deadline to finally work out a budget deal this year. Now, just weeks later, it turns out that stinky budget plan wasn't enough to solve the budget crisis. State lawmakers are back in ...

US trial in alleged Liberian torture wrapping up - Salon
Oct 28th, 2008 | MIAMI -- The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor conducted a brutal campaign of torture and killings as chief of a notorious security unit known in the war-torn west African nation as the "Demon Forces," a prosecutor said ...