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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

Local Headlines

• Home loan program discussed for American Indians

  Apr 24, 2008 | via KX News 

  A home loan program is offering options to American Indians living off reservations.

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  Related Topix: Berthold, ND, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Indians denied home loans

  Dec 29, 2007 | via IN-FORUM 

  Willard Yellow Bird says he wanted to buy a home in his native North Dakota. Yellow Bird, an Arikara from White Shield on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, ended up in Moorhead instead because he and his ...

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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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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, North Dakota

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

  Thursday Jun 19 | 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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  Related Topix: North Dakota Government, North Dakota, US Politics, Kent Conrad, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 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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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, North Dakota, Barack Obama, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial

• 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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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, US Politics, Kent Conrad, US News, US Senate, Democrat, North Dakota

• 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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  Related Topix: North Dakota, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Home

National Headlines

• Report paints gloomy picture

  13 min ago | via Shropshire Star 

  Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...

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• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  14 min ago | via Alaska Journal of Commerce 

  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

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  17 min ago | via Viet Nam News 

  Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam

• Why would Fed delay revision of rules?

  22 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  The Federal Reserve Board has signed off on new rules to help the rising tide of mortgage delinquencies by barring lenders from making loans without proof of a borrower's income and requiring lenders to ensure ...

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

• No slowdown for the downtown

  24 min ago | via Edmonton Sun 

  As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.

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  Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion