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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The FDIC is proposing that Congress authorize the Treasury Department to make loans to borrowers with unaffordable mortgages to pay down up to 20 percent of their principal. The repayment and financing costs for these Home Ownership Preservation (HOP) loans would be borne by mo...

Once we believe in ourselves,we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiencethat reveals the human spirit. e. e. cummings It takes courage to grow upand become who you really are. e. e. cummings Courage is resistance to fear,mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Mark TwainLif...

Accepts new job assignments willingly: Never finishes a job.Active socially: Drinks heavily.Alert to company developments: An office gossip.Approaches difficult problems with logic: Finds someone else to do the job.Average: Not too bright.Character above reproach: Still one step ahead of the law....

Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the  gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The first said, "I built a big house for our mother."The second said," I sent her a Mercedes with a driver."  The third smiled and said, "I've g...

$300 billion FHA refi plan headed for House voteDate : 05/02/2008A plan to allow the Federal Housing Administration to help refinance up to 2 million troubled mortgage loans is headed for a vote in the House of Representatives, after receiving limited bipartisan support in a committee vote Thursd...