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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

• Lending Crisis

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMOT-TV Minot 

  After a huge collapse on Friday, the federal government is throwing a lifeline to mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac today.

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  Related Topix: Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Online Appraisal Sites

  Thursday Jul 3 | via KFYR-TV Bismarck 

  With today`s rocky housing market, buyers and sellers are both looking for ways to save some money.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Letter of the day: Conrad defends mortgages with Countrywide

  Monday Jun 30 | via Star Tribune 

  A June 18 editorial paints a completely inaccurate picture of my mortgages with Countrywide Financial.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Bismarck, ND, Opinion

• Conrad's Countrywide Problems Continue To Grow

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via KXMA-TV Dickinson 

  Jun 26 2008 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php The Senate Ethics Committee is investigating , and now 17 other Senators aren't responding to inquiries about their personal mortgages Wonder if Conrad's ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Byron Dorgan, US Senate, Democrat

• A defense borne of hubris, or stupidity

  Monday Jun 23 | via Housing Wire 

  We think it's our job here in the BuzzPost to call it like we see it - and what we're seeing this Monday morning from North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad is nothing less than either blind stupidity or ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  4 min ago | via West Linn Tidings 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  3 hrs ago | via The Associated Press 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  6 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  7 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  7 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage