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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

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• "About that Mortgage, Senator . . ." [Dodd, Conrad]

  Friday Jun 27 | via Free Republic 

  NEW YORK TIMES: "About that Mortgage, Senator . . ." It turns out that the chieftain of Countrywide -- which is smack in the middle of the mortgage mess -- extended privileged borrowing status to two Senators, ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, North Dakota

• Kent Conrad Rushing To Explain Away Countrywide Scandal Before It Grows Legs In North Dakota

  Thursday Jun 19 | via KXMA-TV Dickinson 

  Jun 20 2008 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php Via a friendly source in the North Dakota media comes this soon-to-be-published op/ed from Kent Conrad which seeks to defend the Senator on the ...

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  Related Topix: North Dakota Government, North Dakota, US Politics, Kent Conrad, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Fill up your intellectual tank here at NRO.

  Jun 18, 2008 | via National Review 

  DEFAULT IN THE SENATE. The Editors decry the corruption in the Senate with the Countrywide Financial bailout: The U.S. Senate is about to enact a massive subsidy for Countrywide Financial less than a week after ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, North Dakota, Barack Obama, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial

• Senators tied to special mortgage deals

  Jun 15, 2008 | via The Tennessean 

  WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, a leader of Congress' efforts to help homeowners ensnared in the subprime mortgage meltdown, reportedly got special treatment on his own ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, US Politics, Kent Conrad, US News, US Senate, Democrat, North Dakota

• North Dakota Housing Market

  Apr 21, 2008 | via KFYR-AM Bismarck 

  DAVID FLYNN SAYS THE MARKET IS AFFECTED BY NEWS OF FALLING PRICES AND RISING HOME MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

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  Related Topix: North Dakota, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Home

National Headlines

• Angelo's Ashes Burned Us

  4 min ago | via New York Post 

  On July 24, 2007, then-Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo jumped onto a conference call announcing the second-quarter results of his company, the largest mortgage provider in the US with a 15 percent ...

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• More homeowners rent in sagging market

  3 hrs ago | via St. Cloud Times Online 

  MINNEAPOLIS - Sean Kirschner tried for a year to sell his three-bedroom home in Montrose but got only five showings even with a price reduction.

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• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  3 hrs ago | via Press & Argus 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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• Truth Needed To Stabilize Markets

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  It's not over. Despite mid-week relief for financial stocks, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney says the financial markets won't be able to stabilize until there is more truth-telling. Rather than ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ansonia, CT

• Plastic Problems

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  Where will the money come from? Gas and food prices are rising, mortgage interest rates are adjusting higher, loans are harder to find and unemployment is ticking up.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage