“Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Home ownership is equated with the American dream—but what do we do? What we are encouraged to do by family, friends, banks,… — Conrad Cooper Copy Share Image
I think it is only natural that people have anxiety about the economy because the economy is real. It is their job,… — John Key Copy Share Image
Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money… — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction.… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability… — Lisa Madigan Copy Share Image
It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
There are ways to abuse the microfinance system, just like there are ways to abuse the mortgage system. The solution is not… — Diana Taylor Copy Share Image
I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the USA probably don't understand how important they are to the mortgage markets. And it's really important… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
Most people don't get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I want to pay my mortgage and go on vacation, so I love working. I want to be able to do independent… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image