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Mortgage rate analysis: Time to take a look at your loan options
What home equity debt is
Why they are popular
Why people borrow against their equity
What lenders look for
The cost of a home equity loan
Refinancing a home equity loan
Balloon loan pitfalls
Risks of high LTV loans
Scam artists
Rights of rescission
Personal loans:A rare form of financing
Fast money -- at a price
Who usually uses them
Lump sums and credit lines
Before you apply for a personal loan
Fed announces surprise rate cut
What's bad for CDs is good for home equity borrowers
CD, money market savers feeling the pinch
How to buy a vacant lot
Good news for credit card users, home equity borrowers
Fed announces another half-percent rate cut
Sale-leaseback: A dangerous new form of consumer debt
Home equity rates falling -- time to consolidate debt?
Predatory lending laws could thwart smaller mortgages
Floundering economy points to another rate cut
Fed slashes rates another half-percent
Clues to the Fed's rate cut cycles
Home equity or refinance: Which is better for you?
Fed makes its move -- will it be the last?
Home equity loan rates hit lowest levels in years
Home equity line can be good source of tuition money
Lenders drop single-premium credit insurance
Let your escrow grow for you, not your lender
'Hard money' lenders: The source for last-resort loans
Beware trust scams
When Wall Street suffers, there's a bull market for scams
Top 10 investment scams
Elderly consumers unknowingly snared by 20-year CD trap
When refinancing booms, so do scams and screw-ups
Don't get flattened by a used car with a rolled-back odometer
10 most-creative swindles from today's clever cons
New safeguards for your credit card number
'Rapid-equity' loans: A quick way to lose money?
Home equity rates hit all-time low
How the Fed works
Fed cuts rates to spur post-disaster spending
Interest-rate free fall is hitting the "floors"
8 ways to consolidate debt
Fed cuts rates half percent -- will it work this time?
Revealing reports precede expected Fed rate cut
Refinancing: New rate, new rules