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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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

Local Headlines

• WSJ vs. Jim Johnson

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Media Blog 

  In an editorial today , the Wall Street Journal calls for an investigation into the sweetheart loans given by Countrywide to Obamaican Jim Johnson: The disclosure about Mr.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Big Timber, MT

Regional Headlines

• Bankers survey shows support for mortgage bailout

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KPAX 

  Most rural bank CEOs surveyed in Montana and 10 other states support a federal bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the event of financial collapse.

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• Mortgage reforms will save Canadians from U.S.-style woes

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Calgary Herald 

  By the upper reaches of the Missouri in Montana, runs an arm of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

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• Regulations needed in nation's lending industry

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  Montana Department of Revenue Director Dave Bucks told a legislative panel last week Montana is dodging the national housing crisis.

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  Related Topix: Housing, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho, The University of Findlay, Montana

• Revenue chief: State dodges housing crisis

  Friday Jul 11 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  HELENA - Wise mortgage decisions and a relatively strong economy have largely kept the state's housing market above national turmoil, the director of the Montana Department of Revenue said Thursday.

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• High-priced oil means it's time to relocate

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Billings Outpost 

  Bicycling around town, digging and planting and weeding our garden, not climbing into the car for four whole days, I didn't think once about the price of gasoline.

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  Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Montana, Mortgage, Mortgage

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  14 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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• U.s. Congress Passes...

  15 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  15 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  15 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  15 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Listing, Home