From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
Subject: Re: hard times investments was: (no subject given)
Article-I.D.: news.C52t8L.5CH
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
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Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu


In article <1938@tecsun1.tec.army.mil>, riggs@descartes.etl.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes:
>	My mother-in-law, who grew up in Germany, doesn't believe in 
>money at all. She started out as a real estate developer, and now raises
>horses. She keeps telling me that inflation is coming back, and to lock
>in my fixed rate mortgage as low as possible.

If time is really hard, can a bank selectively call in some mortgage
loans early?  What if the bank folds, can its creditors call in the
loans?
