Mortgage

The 50-Year Mortgage: Engineering Generational Poverty as Public Policy

Usury is as old as civilization and so is humanity’s instinctive disgust toward it. Yet today, usury isn’t just tolerated, it’s the operating system of the global economy. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the modern mortgage system. Nothing exposes the rot more clearly than the proposal for 50-year mortgages.

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