Word: highs
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...cover any unexpected losses in its $685 billion portfolio. That paltry level of reserve funding, less than is mandated by the government, has left some members of Congress in a twitchy mood and some onlookers to wonder if the FHA will eventually need a massive infusion of cash. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...other steps to beef up its controls. But some bad calls - whether from a lack of resources (it has long begged Congress to fund computer upgrades) or a lack of judgment - will haunt the agency for years. Loans it backed in 2006 and 2007 are souring at a particularly high rate because of seller-financed down payments; when a home buyer isn't the one ponying up equity, there is more than twice as much chance that the loan will go bad. That practice is now gone, but the FHA is still expecting more than 20% of the loans...
...Christianity) is a wicked cult, and it’s high time we left it behind.” - Christopher Hitchens
...expense. Meanwhile, Kurt’s touching scenes with his father were almost too real for a show this cartoony, and we were jarred by the tension in the sequence that cuts between Burt’s phone call and Kurt’s attempts at a high F. Glee’s definitely moving in a good direction, and this episode improves its attempts at fleshing out the characters while attempting a tightrope act of caricaturing without stereotyping. Sometimes it falters, and unfortunately Mercedes still gets the worst of it. (You’ll find her something...
...What former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani did to the Mob is what Preet Bharara will do to Wall Street." - Ravi Batra, an India-born defense lawyer in New York, after Bharara brought insider-trading charges against two high-profile businessmen from India, where Bharara was born (Wall Street Journal...