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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

• Transfer

  Yesterday | via Daily Business Review 

  Web Extra: Deed Buyers John G. Snyder and Hinda M. Snyder, as trustees of 130 Cocoanut Row Realty Trust, named for the property address, paid an additional $320,000 to cover the real estate sales commission and ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Palm Beach County, FL, Palm Beach, FL, Home Listing, Home

• SEC Poised to Exempt Market-Makers From Emergency Ban on Naked Short Sales

  Yesterday | via Bloomberg 

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to exempt market makers in stocks from an emergency rule aimed at preventing manipulation in shares of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and 17 Wall Street firms.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services

• Time To Invest in Hamptons Real Estate?

  Jun 13, 2008 | via Hamptons Real Estate Blog 

  Billionaire hedge-fund manager Edward S. Lampert is placing new bets on a U.S. housing recovery, buying stakes in beaten-up home builders, mortgage lenders and a home-improvement retailer.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• Fannie, Freddie `Guarantees' Make Debt a Buy That Poole Deems `Insolvent'

  Thursday | via Bloomberg.com 

  Debt of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the mortgage finance companies deemed ``insolvent'' by former Federal Reserve President William Poole, is suddenly looking to Jamie Jackson like one of the best buys in the ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Financial Services, BlackRock, Investment Services, Greenwich, CT

• Crisis of faith

  Wednesday | via Reuters RSS Reuters.com 

  The nightmare scenario for U.S. economic authorities is here: confidence in their ability to rescue the country from a housing-led financial panic is now at its lowest level since the crisis began.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Bad economy means good business for repo men

  Yesterday | via Thehour.com 

  BRIDGEPORTAssociated PressThis is what it looks like when a gilded age turns to brass: the boats, motor homes and expensive cars bought during the good times are turned over to the repo men in favor of paying ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, New York Government, New York, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Foreclosures

• KISS 95.7 = Connecticut's Hit Music = 860-247-9570

  Friday Jul 11 | via KISS 95.7 Hartford 

  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are too big to fail and must be kept alive to avoid a crisis of "unspeakable magnitude," a former top Federal Reserve policy-maker said on Friday.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Connecticut

• Obama Seeks Info On Dodd In Vice President Search

  Friday Jul 11 | via Hartford Courant 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 86 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Connecticut, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage

• Aspects Of Haven Healthcare Sale Trouble Creditors

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Connecticut's WB 20 

  The Haven Healthcare nursing home chain began a new era Monday, as most of its 25 homes in New England were sold to three real estate investment firms, while four Connecticut homes were placed in the hands of a ... 50 comments

  Related Topix: Glastonbury, CT, Home, Mortgage, Connecticut

• Dodd's popularity slips in Connecticut

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Newsday.com 

  If veteran Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd 's trademark jaunty smile seems a bit forced these days, it's no surprise.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Foreclosures, Barack Obama, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, 2008 Presidential Election

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  5 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  14 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  19 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home