But the mortgage variety insists on using oceans of leverage to buy bonds backed by loans to homeowners or commercial landlords and, to a lesser degree, freestanding property loans to both.
Roughly 90 percent of the money invested in mortgages currently flows through Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees loans of lesser value.
Toulon are considering whether it would be in their interests to let the five-cap forward go for a year, for a lesser fee but not on loan, and re-sign him next season.
Details are not yet available, but, presumably, a bank will receive credit toward its obligation for various forms of assistance — say, a dollar's worth of credit for every dollar by which it reduces the balance on an underwater loan or a lesser amount for every dollar of payment it postpones for unemployed borrowers.
Courtesy of the Whitney, the Met, the Guggenheim, Yale, the Carnegie and Philadelphia Museums of art and some private collectors, more than 60 works by 44 famously controversial and lesser known artists are on loan to the Bruce, divided into abstract expressionists, regionalists and social realists, and geometric abstractionists.
DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor and foreign automakers have been helping their buyers with low-rate loans to a lesser extent -- such programs are costly after the Federal Reserve's six increases in short-term interest rates since June 1999.
Perkins points out in his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man how he would talk lesser developed nations into accepting vast loans from institutions such as the World Bank or USAID.
Other types of health care expenditures were typically financed through savings and loans, and to a lesser extent by selling assets and cutting/delaying payments.
It has offered a lesser amount if she resumes paying the loan.
By endowing the reformed Benedictine monasteries with the lands required for their support, he had dispossessed many lesser nobles, and had rewritten leases and loans of land to the benefit of the monasteries.
