Confusing cause and effect is one of the most common logical fallacies. It's a principal component of most propaganda. It's also known as the correlation/causation error, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc or the false cause fallacy.
Loss Mitigation. Loss mitigation is a process used by mortgage lenders to work with buyers who are delinquent on their home loans. Through the loss mitigation process, a lender may modify the terms of a home loan, allowing the homeowner to sell the property for less than is owed, or transfer the deed back to the lender. The goals of loss mitigation are to reduce the potential loss being incurred by a lender when the borrower is delinquent.
The process of paying off a loan through specifically structured periodic payments is known as amortization. This type of loan is different from other loans due to the way the amount and the structure of each payment is determined. Mortgage payments are a common form of amortized loans and, interestingly enough, both the terms mortgage and amortization find their meaning in the same root word: mort.. This term means to deaden or kill, as in to kill off or eliminate the loan a bit at a time, via regular payments.