A Little Bit About Mortgage

I don’t live in the U.S. I am even not a U.S citizen, but like so many people in the world, we turn our attention to the U.S more often than before lately. The world is in recession, that’s what I read and heard people say, although how it will affect me; I still have very little idea.

One of the things that I heard was having a major impact on the U.S economy is the Mortgage problems. It seems that there’s a lot of people that cannot get out of debt and cannot afford to pay their mortgage anymore, which is really, really sad to hear.

I read that mortgage was originally comes from Old French, meaning ‘Dead Pledge’. You can read more about it on the Wikipedia page about mortgage. Because of this meaning, some people joked that it means that the debt will follow you until you died. It was somewhat funny, but only because it sounds rather ironic.

Oh, I also found a blog which wrote about mortgage, mortgage rates and even mortgage quotes. I haven’t had the time to read it thoroughly right now, perhaps later though. For now, I guess I’ll go and take a rest for a while. See you all later!


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