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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will be less likely to stop making their payments. The plan is equivalent to a universal renegotiation of terms that improves the situation for both homeowners and banks. As a bonus, mortgage-backed - and, indeed, all mortgage-based - securities will become less toxic by virtue of a trickle-up effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Bank Fix: Cut Every Mortgage's Principal | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...there is a tax worth paying, many people would probably say that one that helps build a foundation under the value of their own homes is high on the list. The process may create an atmosphere that looks and feels like socialism, but if the net effect is that the drop in housing prices is reversed in short order, even free-market advocates may tolerate this plan rather than watch the world burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Real Estate Market by Paying the Neighbor's Mortgage | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...with complicated assets like mortgage-based securities in the hopes of stabilizing the values of more concrete assets, like homes. In contrast, my approach addresses the root of the problem. Thus the government would help ensure that the mortgage-based securities find a stable price via the trickle-up effect. After all, it would take an inconceivable number of foreclosures at 70% of principal to justify the assets' trading down to 22% of their face value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Bank Fix: Cut Every Mortgage's Principal | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...that smoke disrupts the way in which our blood vessels carry blood to the brain," says Sarah Day, head of public health for Britain's Alzheimer's Society. "A type of dementia called vascular dementia is caused by minute hemorrhages in the brain. If smoke is having an effect on the cells in the blood vessel walls, that's a pretty good explanation as to why secondhand smoke would have an effect." (Read "Mild Exercise May Counter Dementia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Secondhand Smoke Tied to Dementia | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...with a sometimes protracted approval process compounding the effect of any delay on the University’s part, the School of Public Health will have to wait years before any move materializes...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cramped Spaces Burden HSPH | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

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