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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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Regional Headlines

• My Turn: The real 'cost' of Rep. Kitzmiller

  Friday Jul 11 | via BurlingtonFreePress.com 

  In a recent e-mail to his constituents, Rep. Warren Kitzmiller wrote about workers' compensation insurance, 'Many in the business community were disappointed that I refused to slash benefits , but I think the ...

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• Selling Fully Furnished

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Hartford Courant 

  Ralph and Catherine DeLeo have spent the past 10 years traveling around the world and, along the way, buying items to furnish their Southbury home.

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• Real Estate Market 2008

  Monday Jul 7 | via VermontGuides.com 

  "Today's market is very different from where it was 10 years ago, when clients came to brokers for the information because they couldn't get it anywhere else.

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• Vermont foreclosures rise as economy falters

  Friday Jul 4 | via Burlington Free Press 

  Economic troubles are to blame for rising foreclosure filings throughout Vermont, the state banking department's deputy commissioner said.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Chittenden County, VT, Vermont, Vermont Government, Foreclosures, Rutland County, VT

• State data: foreclosures continue to rise in Vermont

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Burlington Free Press 

  There are more than twice as many foreclosure filings in Chittenden County, compared to the same period last year, according to data released by the state banking department today.

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National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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  Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  10 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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• Words from the

  15 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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  Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  19 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments 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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• US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  21 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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