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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

Regional Headlines

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  Friday | via The Daily News Journal 

  Unemployment in Tennessee edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 percent in June compared to a month earlier, keeping the jobless rate here a full percentage point higher than the nation's rate.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Knoxville (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System, Home, Mortgage

• First Horizon stock climbs after replacing CEO

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Tennessean 

  Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp., the parent company of First Tennessee, saw its stock soar in trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange after announcing it would replace its chief executive ...

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  Related Topix: Tennessee, Mortgage, Home

• First Horizon CEO to step down

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Knoxville News-Sentinel 

  Hours after the company's stock plunged by nearly 25 percent, First Horizon National Corp.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Tennessee

• Here's A Roundup Of The Progressive Blogs In Tennessee

  Monday Jul 14 | via SharonCobb 

  We blogs run from one end of the State of Tennessee to the other, and we're all working hard to turn our red state blue, so please support all of us.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tennessee

• Agency works to help house Tennesseans

  Monday Jul 14 | via The Tennessean 

  Much of the focus by elected officials and the media during the housing crisis in our country has focused on the mortgage industry and homeowners and buyers.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Tennessee, Tennessee Government

National Headlines

• Airlines hope credit cards will help bail them out of financial crisis

  7 min ago | via The Seattle Times 

  Who hasn't felt guilty handing a harried flight attendant $20 for a $5 drink, then sat there waiting as he or she runs around the cabin asking other passengers for change? Alaska Airlines' recent decision to ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Travel

• DRPA touts efficiency to sell toll hike plan

  7 min ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  The DRPA is preparing to justify its proposed toll and fare hike to the public this week by demonstrating strong fiscal management, by promising to stick to its mission as a regional transportation authority ...

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  Related Topix: Camden (Rutgers University), Cumberland County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Chester, PA

• Financial crunch hitting seniors

  8 min ago | via Columbus Dispatch 

  Janet and Benjamin Thompson found themselves in the midst of a financial nightmare: an adjustable-rate mortgage about to go up for the second time, credit-card debt and rising medical expenses.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore, OH, Ohio University, Health, AARP, Home, Mortgage

• U.S. taxpayers saddled with another bailout

  9 min ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  We knew it could happen, even though they said it wouldn't. The government is using our money again to haul private companies' hindquarters out of the fire -- this time it's troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Flip side of rescue from lending bust: Homes unafforable

  9 min ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Doug Gylfe still can't afford to buy a home in Torrance, Calif., despite a 23 percent drop in prices.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Buying, Harvard University, University of California System, Los Angeles (California State University System), California State University System, UC Los Angeles, York (Pennsylvania State University System)