Author name: Ricky Vasquez

HELOCs to Installment Lending for Home Improvement Financing

American homeowners are sitting on $17 trillion in equity. The average mortgaged borrower holds $295,000. By any historical standard, these are people with options. And yet, when a $14,000 roof replacement or HVAC failure hits, a growing share of them won’t tap a single dollar of that equity. Borrowers who locked in rates below 4% […]

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Social Security, Medicare solvency could be examined by bipartisan commission

Legislation under consideration in Congress would create a bipartisan commission of experts tasked with developing long-term reform options for Social Security and Medicare. Rather than advancing immediate policy changes, the panel would study the financial outlook for the programs and submit recommendations for lawmakers to consider. The proposed Commission on Sustaining Medicare and Social Security

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