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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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Local Headlines

• SPRINGDALE : Second suspect arrested in deadly 2007 bar fight

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Herald-Leader 

  The second of two men charged in the death of a Springdale real estate agent in a bar fight last year has been caught at the U. S.-Mexico border.

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• Home sales in Pittsburgh region drop again

  Friday Jun 20 | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  The laws of economic gravity continue to pull the number of home sales in Pittsburgh into a downward spiral.

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  Related Topix: Pittsburgh Metro, Housing, Butler, PA, Washington, PA

• State wants jobs money back

  Friday Jun 6 | via Http 

  Pennsylvania officials offered Nationwide Appraisal Services Corp. $300,000 in December 1999 to add more than 300 jobs in its Washington County office.

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• Growth limits in Oregon ease housing pains

  May 29, 2008 | via Corvallis Gazette-Times 

  Here at the western edge of the Portland metro area, green fields flow into fir trees and foothills and eventually the Coast Range.

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• Home foreclosures in Pittsburgh region set new record

  Apr 25, 2008 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Foreclosures during the January-March quarter of 2008 set a new record in the five-county Pittsburgh region with 1,187 houses lost by homeowners through this action, a local real estate tracking company ...

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Regional Headlines

• US presidential election won't stop foreclosures 4:54AM ET

  14 hrs ago | via BusinessWeek 

  Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Pennsylvania, 2008 Presidential Election, Foreclosures

• Chester County

  15 hrs ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Full Service Independent Realtors. Our specialty is Southeastern PA. Search the MLS for FREE.

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• Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'

  21 hrs ago | via Log Cabin Democrat 

  In this April 1, 2008 file photo, Joseph Barratt, 55, and others demonstrate outside a HOPE NOW home ownership preservation workshop at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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• Budget not only bill state legislature passes

  Friday | via Standard Speaker 

  By ROBERT SWIFT Harrisburg Bureau Chief HARRISBURG While the state budget commands the lion's share of attention this time of year, state lawmakers also approved three major pieces of legislation that will ...

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  Related Topix: Pittston, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pennsylvania

• Ex-Reading broker gets 12 years in $29M mortgage scam

  Thursday Jul 3 | via InYork 

  HARRISBURG -- A former mortgage broker sentenced to federal prison Wednesday blamed his poor business acumen for causing hundreds of Pennsylvania homeowners and investors to lose more than $29 million in what ...

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National Headlines

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  6 min ago | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  High foreclosure rates and the increasing number of individual and small-business bankruptcies are keeping attorney Dan Gukeisen’s services in demand.

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• Disaster capitalism: State of extortion

  7 min ago | via Rabble.ca 

  Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil.

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• Major homeowner relief bill in Senate

  8 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  The unfinished work is a major relief bill designed to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners heading for foreclosure, pull new buyers back into the real estate arena and permanently raise conventional and ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Market Still Struggling; Positive Signs Beginning to Emerge

  9 min ago | via Seeking Alpha 

  With rising energy prices, falling nonfarm payrolls, a plunge in consumer confidence, and a host of other negative indicators, economists have plenty to worry about.

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• Ted Forstmann Says We're All Going to Hell

  9 min ago | via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed 

  Ted Forstmann says we're all going to hell. That's the message I got from a cheerfully apocalyptic interview with financier Forstmann that appears in Monday's WSJ.

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