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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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Regional Headlines

• US housing shows signs of recovery

  7 hrs ago | via Telegraph.co.uk 

  Housing is back in demand in the US - especially when homes can cost only 10,000, writes James Quinn Other than being home to cereal giant Kellogg's, the town of Battle Creek is little known outside the ...

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• Michigan Especially Hard Hit by Foreclosures

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Epoch Times 

  According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, nearly 2 million loans were in foreclosure nationwide during the first quarter of 2008.

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• Jobless Michiganders tell of fight for survival

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Detroit Free Press 

  A typical day for Jim Stoner might go something like this: Wake up early and head to a local library to search for jobs online.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mount Clemens, MI, Michigan, Roseville, MI

• Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevadan at Work column

  Monday Jun 30 | via Hotel Online 

  Jun. 30--TRUMP EXEC USES PERSONALIZED CARE TO BUILD CUSTOMER BASE: Steve Shalit decided to go into the hotel business after a ski trip to Vail, Colo.

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• Profile: Steve Shalit - Vice President and Managing Director, Trump...

  Monday Jun 30 | via Hotel Online 

  June 30, 2008 - TRUMP EXEC USES PERSONALIZED CARE TO BUILD CUSTOMER BASE: Steve Shalit decided to go into the hotel business after a ski trip to Vail, Colo.

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National Headlines

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  7 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

  8 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

  9 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

  10 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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  Related Topix: Housing, Mortgage, Home

• Ted Forstmann Says We're All Going to Hell

  10 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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