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Library: Ponzi Financing & Entitlement
- Southern California’s cultural pathology
- The unceremonious fall from entitlement
- HELOC Abuse Grading System
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- Money rentership: housing and the new American dream
- Go Ponzi, young debtor! Managing finances the California way
- California personal finance: Ponzi style
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- Should you walk away from home debt?
- Walk away from mortgage debt to secure your children’s future
- The weak case against strategic default
- Strategic default consequences minor and likely to decrease
- Strategic default is merely collecting on home price protection insurance sold by lenders
- Strategic default is moral imperative to prevent future housing bubbles
- Widespread strategic default is essential to economic recovery
- Strategic mortgage default has become common and accepted
- Accelerated default, what strategic default really is
- What really prompts borrowers to accelerate their default?
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