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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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Regional Headlines

• Leach proves prophetic about mortgage crisis

  Yesterday | via Des Moines Register 

  From his office at Harvard, Jim Leach walked me through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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• East-side residents fight mortgage crisis

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Http 

  Overgrown lawns, broken windows and tell-tale lock boxes are becoming more common sights in east Des Moines, where the number of vacated homes continues to increase as part of the nationwide mortgage crisis.

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• Mortgage lending and housing market changes in Iowa

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KWWL-TV Waterloo 

  For buyers and sellers, national economic and housing trends still apply in Iowa, just on a smaller scale.

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

• Guest column: Free-market focus of GOP slows response to credit crisis

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Des Moines Register 

  Iowa native son Herbert Hoover was, by all accounts, a caring and compassionate individual.

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• For Fannie and Freddie, a Feathered Nest

  Monday Jul 14 | via Air America Radio 

  International Herald Tribune By Julie Creswell As the administration of President George W. Bush scrambles to address the sudden decline of the two largest mortgage finance companies in the United States, some ...

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  Related Topix: Iowa, George Bush, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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

  4 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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• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  6 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

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

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• 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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• 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