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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

• Real estate watch: New agents, awards, meeting

  Mar 22, 2008 | via Salisbury Post 

  Sherri Armes and Mike Sherrill have joined Re/Max Leading Edge Realty Group as sales associates.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Concord, NC, Marketing, Housing, Lincoln County, NC

• State offers toll free number to help people in foreclosure; hundreds ...

  Feb 5, 2008 | via The Gaston Gazette 

  Hoping to stem a surge in foreclosures, two state agencies said Monday they will pay reputable nonprofit counselors to help North Carolina residents keep what's typically the largest investments of their lives.

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  Related Topix: Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Foreclosures

• Many regulations have changed in tax law

  Jan 1, 2008 | via Lincoln Times-News 

  With April 15 looming, local accountants and tax experts shared knowledge of the taxpaying process.

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  Related Topix: Crouse, NC, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lincoln County, NC

Regional Headlines

• Wray to attend issues conference

  15 hrs ago | via Home in Henderson 

  Rep. Michael H. will be among the thousands of legislators who will gather in New Orleans this summer for the National Conference of State Legislatures' annual Legislative Summit.

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  Related Topix: Southern University System, New Orleans (Southern University System), Mortgage, Personal Finance, North Carolina, Carolina (University of Puerto Rico System), University of Puerto Rico System

• With N.C. Legislature done, '09 challenges begin

  21 hrs ago | via Wral.com 

  Democrats adjourned the General Assembly citing their usual list of accomplishments, which they'll use in appealing to voters to stay in charge of the Legislature for the next two years.

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  Related Topix: Weather, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Natural Disasters, Personal Finance, Drought, US News, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

• Bail out failing banks and mortgage-holders on the brink of foreclosure?

  Friday | via WWNC-AM Asheville 

  North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx takes a firm stand on the troubles in the mortgage and banking industry, by saying 'definitely not'. Foxx believes that liberals in Congress pushed banks to abandon ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia Foxx, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

• NC legislators trying to meet last-minute requests

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via HendersonvilleNews.com 

  Gov. Mike Easley signed the state budget bill into law Wednesday, removing a major obstacle that could have prevented the Legislature from adjourning for the year by the end of the week.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

• Senate backs Easley's mortgage foreclosure plan

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via WAVY-TV Portsmouth 

  A plan to help North Carolina families struggling to make their mortgage payments is on the fast track in the General Assembly.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  10 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  11 min ago | via Journal Star 

  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

• Chuck Jaffe: Most money-market funds are safe from financial meltdown

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Edward in Brockton, Mass., got scared enough by the headlines a week ago that he did the unthinkable.

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

• Landmark' case being built against TVR owner on Maui

  13 hrs ago | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  Maui County has built a hefty case against California resident Stephanie Rager, who is accused of illegally renting out her four-bedroom Kihei home for several thousand dollars a week, the Maui News reported ...

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  Related Topix: Kihei, HI, Housing, Maui County, HI

• Words from the

  15 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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