#mortgage

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#being #change #companies #demanded #done

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#even #get #got #i #know

Engaged in a new form of serfdom---only bound now to banks and mortgage lenders instead of to lords---her more highly leveraged neighbors pore over the business section of the newspaper each day looking for some sign that the government will soon step in to “freeze” their mortgage rates where they are before a scheduled adjustment hits. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#business

My only allegiance is to my country.  The success of our country is built on hard work, sacrifice, innovation, integrity, and confidence.  How can you be confident if you can’t get a job?  How can you be confident if the mortgage on your home is higher than your home’s value?  How can you be confident when our elected officials haven’t given us one single idea how to fix this situation? – Jeremy Lyons ↗

— Marvin H. McIntyre

#financial #fiscal-cliff #inside-out #mortgage #thriller

Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#life

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#enemy #getting #give #going #hire

I have never had another job and I don't have a mortgage. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#had #i #job #mortgage #never

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#consumer #home #homeowners #improvements #like