Sentence examples for cra- from inspiring English sources
These government-mandated loans amount to almost two-thirds of all the junk mortgages in the system, and their delinquency rates are nine to fifteen times greater than equivalent rates on prime mortgages.Perhaps my colleague can point out the error in Mr Wallison's learned synopsis, in which the CRA and the GSEs appear to play more than "largely irrelevant" or "also-ran" roles.
Having concluded that "the CRA was largely irrelevant" and that "Fanny and Freddie were also-rans", he finds it "hard to understand how one could put government at the heart of the crisis".
Ten million were on the books of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when they were taken over, and 2.7 million are currently held by banks that purchased them under the requirements of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
His bank has promised $35 billion for such projects (out of $800 billion in total CRA commitments) over ten years.
Mr Grzywinski was the only banker to testify in 1977 in favour of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which required banks to increase their lending in poorer neighbourhoods.
Cleaning up Mercury rising Into the fold Plastic promise The weeds of destruction Award Reprints Related items Prepaid cards: Plastic promiseMay 4th 2006The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 was meant to bring financial services to the poor by requiring banks to meet their "credit needs" in the areas they serve.
"They are no different, in terms of profitability and standards, than our similar, non-CRA products," says Doug Woodruff of Bank of America.
When a possessed farm boy taunts Lange's nun, he sneers, drawing the words out like Snidely Whiplash, "It drives you cra-a-azy.
As the novel plays out, Marie becomes increasingly obsessed with painterly decay: "Cra-que-lure..
Just as Republicans want to use the debt ceiling to make the president live with bigger spending cuts than he would otherwise support, Obama's political team wants to use the leverage provided by those cra-a-a-zy Tea Partiers to make Democrats live with bigger spending cuts than they normally would support.
Yet as the visits continued, at night, in the lavender-centred bower of her bedroom, when Jane tried to power down… Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, I'm half cra-azy… sleep eluded her, slipping away between the granolithic posts of imaginary streetlights, and wearing a familiar dumb hoodie.
