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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

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• A Foreclosure Bargain for Their "Forever House"

  Wednesday May 14 | via Realty Trac 

  Karen Krynen saw an opportunity. Nestled at the top of a hill with a long private driveway, the bank-owned property sitting on a huge 40,946 square foot lot was exactly what she was looking for.

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  Related Topix: La Habra Heights, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

• Students' financial literacy examined

  Wednesday May 14 | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  Bill Wagnon, chairman of Kansas State Board of Education, remembers watching fellow board member Carol Rupe teach a gathering of students about thriftiness.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Kansas, Education Etc.

• Banks sue ex-owner of Pennypower over loans

  Wednesday May 7 | via Kansas.com 

  Lin Harris, owner of the now-defunct Pennypower, is being sued by a bank for more than $330,000 in missed mortgage payments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Survey: Midwestern economy relatively strong

  Thursday May 1 | via Topeka Capital-Journal 

  A survey of business executives in nine Midwestern and Plains states suggests their state economies are humming right along despite wholesale inflationary pressures.

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  Related Topix: Kansas, Mortgage, Home

• Steve Penn: Jackson should give Jeremiah Wright some lessons

  Wednesday Apr 30 | via Kansas City Star 

  Questioning and challenging America’s policies while remaining patriotic and hopeful.It’s a fine line that ministers, especially in black churches, walk every Sunday.How does a black minister ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas, George Bush, Foreclosures

• Western Kansas Rides Wave of Prosperity

  Friday Apr 25 | via National Public Radio 

  While bad economic trends sweep most of the nation, there's one place where things are booming: western Kansas.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Kansas Government, Kansas, Agriculture, Science

• Investing in a Down Market

  5 min ago | via American Chronicle 

  All investments depend on making returns, which in turn are affected by macro cycles such as the Great Depression or the dot-com boom.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Housing, Opinion

• How Will The US Economy Recover?

  5 min ago | via American Chronicle 

  You would probably have to have been living on a remote desert island for the better part of two years to not see any signs of the slowdown in the economy of the United States.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Catholic parishes tackling finance

  8 min ago | via Press-Telegram 

  The Rev. Jeffry Dillon switched from the religious to the secular on a recent Sunday morning to ask his parishioners a pointed question: "Do subprime mortgages scare you?" Then he announced that the Roman ...

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

• With housing down, rentals are up

  8 min ago | via Philly.com 

  Megan Berry, a freshman transfer student at the University of the Arts, had been searching for an apartment since February, but couldn't find one she considered reasonably priced and in a safe neighborhood.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Philadelphia, PA

• Remedies for stocks' 'lost decade'

  8 min ago | via Philly.com 

  Investors who thought they could count on stocks to make up for the mediocre savings they have socked away in 401 s and IRAs are having an awakening.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Financial Markets