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		<title>Levering Your Home To Boost Your Retirement Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the time you&#8217;re nearing retirement, you should have substantial equity in your home, regardless of what your local market has done. If that&#8217;s the case, you can leverage your home to help you boost your income that don&#8217;t rely on the stock market or home prices to keep you solvent. Simply down-sizing can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/levering-your-home-to-boost-your-retirement-income/</link>
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		<title>How cash for gold scam works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the time of crisis a lot of people try to cash their possessions in order to pay their bills. There are companies out there who try to take advantage of the situation and scam people off their money. Cashing your jewelry may lead you to a lot of trouble. This is how it works:

The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/how-cash-for-gold-scam-works/</link>
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		<title>International Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International finance is, of course, a vital aspect of the overall area of current finance. However, “international finance” is something of a misnomer in that it presumes that if there is an international side to finance, there must also be a domestic understanding of the field. In the modern era all finance is international, especially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/international-finance/</link>
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		<title>Dividends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 25 years of the 20th century, cash dividends declined as a percentage of earnings, but companies paying higher cash dividends have generally experienced higher returns during periods of market downturn. Dividends cushion the stock price fall and normally prop up share returns as long as the dividend can be sustained. However, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/dividends/</link>
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		<title>Mergers and Acquisitions, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valuations get way out of line during such times, and this was surely the case in both the 1920s and the 1990s. The result was the same in both cases, as well: a market crash (in one case abrupt, in the other prolonged) and an end to the merger movement of the time. The merger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/mergers-and-acquisitions-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Mergers and Acquisitions, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were three merger waves (or major merger movements) in U.S. financial history. Interestingly, these three separate waves emphasized different forms of business combinations and financing methods, but similar causes for their cessation in terms of overriding events.
The first such wave was horizontal in character, used European capital (principally British), began in the last years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/mergers-and-acquisitions-part-1/</link>
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		<title>No Income Verification loan Applicable Situations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The No Income Verification loan is ideal for self-employed applicants and for borrowers who have unstable income, such as commissioned employees, recently employed borrowers and applicants who receive a large amount of cash (undocumented) income.
However, the NIV program is also used by salaried borrowers who cannot qualify for a loan, based on their documented income.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/no-income-verification-loan-applicable-situations/</link>
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		<title>Stated income programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stated Income programs accepts whatever income is stated by the borrower on the application—within reason.  Some people may find this difficult to believe: but it is true. This is the essential No Income Verification program.  The applicant must indicate a qualified income on the application; and the lender will use that income figure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/stated-income-programs/</link>
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		<title>Types of NIV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the No Income Verification loan has taken any many shades of interpretations and different titles, most of the NIV programs available today can be categorized according to four classes:
●     Lite Documentation
●     Stated Income
●     No Ratio
●     No Documentation
Lite documentation
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/types-of-niv/</link>
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		<title>FHA &amp; VA Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Non-conventional mortgage loans are basically government loans: VA (Veterans Administration), FHA (Federal Housing Administration) and FmHA (Farm Housing Agency)—now RHS Rural Housing Service—loans. This article will discuss two specific non-conventional programs in more detail below:
1.  VA
2.  FHA
Ginnie Mae, the Government National Mortgage Association, is the agency responsible for securitizing much these non-conventional, government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fast-mortgage.net/fha-va-loans/</link>
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