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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

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  7 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  8 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  8 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  8 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  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

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  9 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA