Seeing the American home as ATM

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Treating their homes almost like ATMs, Americans are taking on more and more mortgage debt. Homeowners took $59 million in cash out of their houses in the second quarter of 2005 double the amount in the same quarter of 2004 and 16 times the average rate of the mid-1990s according to recent data from Freddie Mac. more [LA Times]

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