Retirees lost equity in their homes and have less time for their retirement accounts to recover.
What if consumers — having lost equity in their homes and scrimping on cars, vacations, even college tuition — were reluctant to buy and install the panels?
As the recession becomes more severe and unemployment mounts, they fret each week their properties remain unsold, and fear losing equity.
Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally will be required to provide any service member who was a victim of a wrongful foreclosure a minimum of $116,785, plus lost equity and interest, Mr. Perez said.
Nascent signs of life in the spring selling season are welcome, but it will take a far stronger economy, or far more aggressive antiforeclosure efforts, to substantially rebuild lost equity anytime soon.
He and his wife aren't as bad off as some — they still own their home and, while they've lost equity, they don't think it's worth less than their $150,000 mortgage.
It's not clear whether I.P.L. team owners make money from their franchises, because these numbers are not public, but they have certainly lost equity value on their main businesses.
Mr. Belvedere said he would be willing to live with all that lost equity if he could refinance his loan from a variable rate, which could eventually go as high as 12percentt, into a 30-year fixed term.
"At the end of the day, this could be decided by parochialism, and making sure each service does not lose equity, as much as on how best to manage the risk of force levels for Iraq and Afghanistan," said one Pentagon planner.
Mr. Weidner's criticism comes on the heels of a strongly worded column by Alison Frankel of Reuters, who wrote: "Is this really how we want the court system to work?... Strine said he was afraid to enjoin the shareholder vote because Kinder Morgan could then walk away from the proposed acquisition, costing El Paso stockholders billions in lost equity.
