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Why mortgage insurance matters

Written by Kurt Lim Mortgage insurance in brief In the event of an insured’s passing, the mortgage insurance provides a lump sum payout to cover the insured’s mortgage (home loan). Mortgage insurance directly benefits the lender, such as the bank, rather than the insured. This is because it is the lender who must recover the […]

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Free market and Thailand

In Thailand, while haggling over prices, if one finds that a bar of soap is too expensive at a particular shop, he can walk further up and easily compare prices at another shop. He then returns to purchase the cheapest one. At the same time, should he pause for a moment here to recall which […]

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I love Bangkok

Deserted streets where vendors and customers once liven them.It isn’t my place to comment on Thai government policies. But I have to as I have seen this in my own country.This occurrence has many names to it: – progress – ridding the public of nuisance – etc. These problems follow thereafter: – price inflation because […]

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