Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PRICE-LEVEL-ADJUSTED MORTGAGE (PLAM)
  
  a form of home loan in which payments are adjusted for inflation not by changing the interest rate but by changing the amount of outstanding principal. The loan is fully amortized, meaning the principal is repaid in a fixed number of years. Initial payments are low because the real rate of interest
  
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