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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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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Standish Casino Opening Postponed

  Dec 20, 2007 | via WNEM-TV Saginaw 

  The latest Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe casino opening has been delayed. Eagle's Landing is under construction in Arenac County's Standish Township. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Saginaw, MI, Arenac County, MI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Inflation takes hold in Europe

  Yesterday | via Detroit News 

  It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan

• University comes to Michigan's rescue

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Holland Sentinel 

  As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)

• Big players in real estate now on the same team

  Thursday Jul 17 | via LivingstonDaily 

  Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.

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  Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Michigan, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• An unconstitutional amendment

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily 

  What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via KVML 

  Responding to Americans anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• - Naked shorting' risky, not sexy

  6 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  The business world is forever tossing out colorful phrases. Today's is "naked short." Naked shorting is a particularly skeevy kind of short selling.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  8 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Opinion

• Faulty borrowers not my problem

  8 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

  Our legislators, along with print and broadcast media, have overlooked another aspect of the current downturn in real estate values.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Gaming losses could persist

  4 hrs ago | via Mason Valley News 

  July 10 went down as a bad day in Nevada's gaming industry. First came the announcment that state gaming revenue numbers in May dropped 15 percent when compared with the same month in 2007.

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  Related Topix: Gaming, Washoe County, NV, Nevada, Home, Mortgage