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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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Regional Headlines

• "About that Mortgage, Senator . . ." [Dodd, Conrad]

  Friday Jun 27 | via Free Republic 

  NEW YORK TIMES: "About that Mortgage, Senator . . ." It turns out that the chieftain of Countrywide -- which is smack in the middle of the mortgage mess -- extended privileged borrowing status to two Senators, ...

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• Kent Conrad Rushing To Explain Away Countrywide Scandal Before It Grows Legs In North Dakota

  Jun 19, 2008 | via KXMA-TV Dickinson 

  Jun 20 2008 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php Via a friendly source in the North Dakota media comes this soon-to-be-published op/ed from Kent Conrad which seeks to defend the Senator on the ...

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• Fill up your intellectual tank here at NRO.

  Jun 18, 2008 | via National Review 

  DEFAULT IN THE SENATE. The Editors decry the corruption in the Senate with the Countrywide Financial bailout: The U.S. Senate is about to enact a massive subsidy for Countrywide Financial less than a week after ...

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• Senators tied to special mortgage deals

  Jun 15, 2008 | via The Tennessean 

  WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, a leader of Congress' efforts to help homeowners ensnared in the subprime mortgage meltdown, reportedly got special treatment on his own ...

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• North Dakota Housing Market

  Apr 21, 2008 | via KFYR-AM Bismarck 

  DAVID FLYNN SAYS THE MARKET IS AFFECTED BY NEWS OF FALLING PRICES AND RISING HOME MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

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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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• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  12 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

  17 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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• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  21 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

  23 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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