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...crafting the plan, policymakers had to walk a fine line between helping borrowers who have been caught off guard by tricky mortgage products and falling house prices and those who simply made imprudent decisions and genuinely can't afford their homes. In order to avoid propping up the second group, Treasury won't subsidize loan modifications that reduce the interest rate below 2%. If you can't afford a 2% mortgage, in the eyes of the government, you can't afford your house. The plan also doesn't apply to investors or people with jumbo mortgages - those, historically, larger than...
...magazine’s launch party last Thursday evening went down more smoothly than a fine Port. While some came for the more generic fare, as hordes descended upon pizza and sushi, there was also filet mignon for the connoisseurs. But regardless of taste, gourmands were united by a love of food, and even more, by a love of getting away from dining halls...
...daughters to college.” FDR recognized that the Harvard of wealth and prestige, the Harvard at which Adams was judged by parentage and where the “Rough Rider” stuck out, was in the throes of change. “A TRAITOR TO FINE EDUCATION”But by FDR’s first run for the U.S. presidency in 1932 Harvard had not changed enough. A straw poll held by The Crimson revealed overwhelming student support for Herbert Hoover, FDR’s Republican opponent. The Crimson, his former paper, would later brand...
...California in this situation? The state has a history of difficult and protracted budget negotiations, in large part because the state constitution requires a two-thirds majority to pass either a budget or a tax increase. Forty-seven other states get along fine without this hurdle, which gives the minority party, in this case the Republicans, an amount of power and leverage far out of proportion to its numbers in a legislature and state dominated by Democrats...
...Fine, but shouldn't the family at least be refunded for the fare difference in the flight they had originally bought and the one they were forced to take? Remember, the earlier flight cost $120 less per ticket - that buys a lot of wings in Buffalo...