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Today's Mortgage Terms starting with F Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or Freddie Mac): A semi government agency that acquires conventional loans that are underwritten to its specific guidelines. These guidelines are an industry standard for residential conventional lending. Federal Housing Administration (FHA): A federal agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which insures residential mortgage loans made by private lenders and sets standards for underwriting mortgage loans. Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae): This agency purchases loans that are underwritten to its specific guidelines. These guidelines are an industry standard for residential conventional lending. FHA Loans: Fixed or adjustable-rate loans that are insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The purpose of FHA loans is to make housing more affordable, especially for first-time homebuyers. First Mortgage: A mortgage which is in first lien, taking priority over all other liens. In case of a foreclosure, the first mortgage will be repaid before any other mortgages. Fixed Rate Loan: Fixed-rate loans have interest rates and payments that are fixed through out the term of the loan. Foreclosure: A legal process in which a mortgaged property may be liquidated to pay off a mortgage loan that is in default. View all Terms

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How fat cats got that way ... - Dallas Morning Views Blog
Re: "Fat cats not the issue -- Do executives really make too much, or are we just looking for an enemy? asks Thomas Sowell," Saturday Viewpoints. Mr. Sowell's defense of the exorbitant salaries of business executives glosses over several points. It's ...

Is Now A Good Time To Refinance Your Mortgage? - CBS 11 News
DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ― There has been a run on refinancing requests in the wake of Tuesday's sudden drop in interest rates. Loan officers say they have received a lot of requests from homeowners, looking to refinance. But before homeowners sign the ...

Another $800 billion, mostly from Federal Reserve, pledged to assist ... - Dallas Morning News
U.S. officials on Tuesday pledged to pump another $800 billion into ailing credit markets, much of it directly from the Federal Reserve — a move that makes the nation’s central bank a lender to almost every corner of American life. The Fed, whose ...

Recession officially began in December '07, economists say - Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy officially sank into a recession last December, according to the committee of economists responsible for dating the nation's business cycles. As if adding a grim punctuation mark to what could become the worst holiday ...

Lower US mortgage rates offer hope to Main Street - FXStreet.com
CINCINNATI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - For Cincinnati mortgage broker Greg Humphrey, the Federal Reserve's move to help homebuyers on Tuesday came just in time to save one client a pile of money -- and he hopes it will be a lifeline for others. "We were ...

The Coming Recession - Reason.com
As this issue of reason goes to press, the dollar is at a record low against the euro, oil is more than $100 a barrel, consumer prices are up 4 percent from a year ago, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is cutting interest rates so often that ...

NAR Says Fed's Buying of Fannie, Freddie Debt Will Drive Down Interest ... - MSN MoneyCentral
NAR Says Fed's Buying of Fannie, Freddie Debt Will Drive Down Interest Rates and Help to Stabilize Housing November 25, 2008 2:28 PM ET

Monetizing the Debt - Safe Haven
Deflation won't happen here; at least not if Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman's Ben Bernanke's plan pans out. Deflation is considered a persistent decline in prices of goods and services; in a speech in 2002 , Bernanke outlined the steps he would take ...

House values decline again - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Values in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties decreased 9.8 percent from September 2007 and 1.4 percent from this August, according to Standard & Poor's S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. The year-to-year drop was the eighth consecutive record for ...

Deutsche Bank, Total, Lone Star, Porsche, Shell in Court News - Bloomberg
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG , Germany's biggest bank, sued three Highland Capital Management LP funds for more than $70 million over missed margin calls on commercial real- estate-backed securities. Deutsche filed the lawsuit in London ...