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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

Local Headlines

• Ohio firm plans to reopen Falls SGL Carbon plant

  Friday Jul 11 | via Buffalo News 

  An Ohio company plans to reopen the old SGL Carbon plant in Niagara Falls and create at least 50 new jobs, its owners told the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ashland, OH

• Mortgage snarls Lockport property

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Buffalo News 

  A local property owner, who city officials said in April was being given time to fix up houses because of a good track record, was summoned Tuesday to Housing Court for failure to fix up a house on South ...

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  Related Topix: Lockport, NY, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Niagara County, NY

• North Tonawanda: City to seek funds from foreclosed apartments

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Tonawanda News 

  A meeting Monday brought together local officials and managers of North Tonawanda's two low-income housing developments, now in foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Niagara County, NY, North Tonawanda, NY, Foreclosures

• Outlet mall back in fashion

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Business First of Buffalo 

  It was a muggy Monday morning when a fleet of tour buses pulled into the parking lot of the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls and unloaded several hundred patrons.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Niagara County, NY, Home, Mortgage

• Teens and the mysteries of money management

  May 25, 2008 | via Buffalo News 

  Cynthia James instructs, from left, Herbert Small, 16, Leah Jett, 17, and Angelika Heath, 16, in Academy of Finance program at Lafayette High.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Credit Card Debt

Regional Headlines

• Bad economy means good business for repo men

  Friday | via Thehour.com 

  BRIDGEPORTAssociated PressThis is what it looks like when a gilded age turns to brass: the boats, motor homes and expensive cars bought during the good times are turned over to the repo men in favor of paying ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, New York Government, New York, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Foreclosures

• Buffalo area tops for job growth

  Friday | via Buffalo News 

  Where was the New York State metro area with the hottest job growth in June? Would you believe Buffalo Niagara? While the region's job market was more tepid than scorching hot, the area still managed to add ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, New York, State University of New York System, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Buffalo (State University of New York System), Allegany County, NY

• Politics is Everyone's Business

  Friday | via Rome Observer 

  The empire strikes back Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is flanked by Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous, R-52 Binghamton and Senator Joseph Griffo, R-47. Griffo invited his fellow Republicans to tour the ...

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  Related Topix: State University of New York System, Binghamton (State University of New York System), Home, Mortgage, New York, Oneida County, NY, Madison County, NY

• Your News Dissector Goes To Washington: NACA Helping Home Owners Big Time

  Friday | via News Dissector's Weblog 

  I arrived in our super hot Capital City to attend NACA's anti-foreclosure event at the Capital Hilton.

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, World News, Ethiopia, Africa, New York, Foreclosures

• Economic role reversal

  Thursday | via The Telegraph 

  German broker Dirk Mueller at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Washington, July 17: The global slowdown stemming in part from the deepening US financial crisis is hitting the world's richest nations the hardest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, New York, York (Pennsylvania State University System)

National Headlines

• Paulson: Banking system sound, deposits protected

  8 min ago | via WAVE-TV Louisville 

  The treasury secretary says the list of troubled banks will grow longer as they struggle to cope with big losses on bad mortgages.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  9 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Chuck Jaffe: Most money-market funds are safe from financial meltdown

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Edward in Brockton, Mass., got scared enough by the headlines a week ago that he did the unthinkable.

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  Related Topix: Boston Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Antioch Police Department Sued by ACLU

  5 hrs ago | via Associated Content 

  Antioch is a growing city of a little more than 100,000 people situated at the Eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  Related Topix: ACLU, San Francisco, CA, Antioch, CA, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  15 min ago | via West Linn Tidings 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, US News