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So I'm going to do a few mortgage things.
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I haven't defined mortgage yet.
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Why didn't I do that?
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So a mortgage is just a 30 year annuity.
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So one more thing--a mortgage is an annuity.
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A fixed mortgage, a fixed rate mortgage is defined by a principal.
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So when we talk about the crisis
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this word principal will come up all the time.
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So that's the face value, a principal,
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a mortgage coupon rate, and a maturity.
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This is a fixed rate mortgage.
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So the most common kind of maturity is 30 years,