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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Volunteer with New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Associated Content 

  Years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there is still much work to be done in the ravaged areas of New Orleans and beyond, and several nonprofit organizations have steadfastly been rebuilding, ...

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  Related Topix: Southern University System, New Orleans (Southern University System), Home, Mortgage, Louisiana

• Louisiana

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Town of Vivian, Louisiana 

  Officially licensed Louisiana State Tigers apparel, merchandise, and gifts. Jerseys, t-shirts, caps, and sweatshirts for men, women, and kids.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA

• Landrieu, Vitter target loan fees

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Times-Picayune 

  Prompted by the intense lobby effort of a local mortgage broker, Louisiana's two senators have authored legislation that could force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to suspend a new set of fees that could stall the ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Louisiana, US Politics, David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, US Senate, Republican, Democrat

• Governor Jindal Signs Bills into Law

  Thursday Jul 3 | via KLFY-TV Lafayette 

  Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he has signed the following bills passed by the legislature into law: HB 10 - Richardson This bill establishes the Mayor's Court of the city of Central.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, Louisiana

• Fannie, Freddie Fail to Relieve Housing Crisis By Shunning Jumbo Mortgages

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via Bloomberg 

  Three months after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won the freedom to step up home-loan purchases, the government-chartered mortgage-finance companies are doing what critics in the Federal Reserve and Congress had ...

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  Related Topix: Louisiana, Housing, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via KVML 

  Responding to Americans anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• - Naked shorting' risky, not sexy

  5 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  The business world is forever tossing out colorful phrases. Today's is "naked short." Naked shorting is a particularly skeevy kind of short selling.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  7 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

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

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Opinion

• Faulty borrowers not my problem

  7 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

  Our legislators, along with print and broadcast media, have overlooked another aspect of the current downturn in real estate values.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Gaming losses could persist

  4 hrs ago | via Mason Valley News 

  July 10 went down as a bad day in Nevada's gaming industry. First came the announcment that state gaming revenue numbers in May dropped 15 percent when compared with the same month in 2007.

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  Related Topix: Gaming, Washoe County, NV, Nevada, Home, Mortgage