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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

• Property Sales

  Friday | via Plainfield Sun 

  Real estate transfer information is public record and is examined regularly by financial institutions, real estate agents and companies that sell products to homeowners.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Kendall County, IL, Real Estate, Plainfield, IL

• Peterson's attys end effort to block lawsuit

  Thursday | via Quad-City Times 

  JOLIET, Ill. - Drew Peterson's attorneys have withdrawn a motion seeking to block efforts by his third wife's family to file a wrongful-death lawsuit.

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  Related Topix: Joliet, IL, Bolingbrook, IL, Personal Finance, Mortgage

• Rising prices, unemployment equals 'stagflation'

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Herald News 

  Another financial term has popped up on the business beat that I thought would be worth defining: stagflation.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Building trust in troubling times

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Beacon News 

  With times the way they are, the clearance rack is a popular gathering spot for shoppers these days.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Joliet, IL, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate

• 30-year mortgage rates hit 9-month high

  Friday Jun 20 | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

  Rates on 30-year mortgages kept surging this week, rising to the highest level in nearly nine months, reflecting more concerns about what the Federal Reserve will do to combat a growing inflation threat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, San Diego Metro

Regional Headlines

• Hording chocolate and airing the pork

  Yesterday | via ScrippsNews 

  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the government-chartered mortgage giants tumbling toward a taxpayer bailout -- have not been penurious about making campaign contributions and engaging top lobbyists to grease ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Illinois, Illinois Government

• Governor Blagojevich urges Congressional Delegation to support additional LIHEAP funding

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Illinois Government News Network 

  ' Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today sent a letter to members of Illinois' Congressional Delegation urging them to support legislation that would increase funding to the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance ... 1 comment

  Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Illinois, Illinois Government, Cook County, IL

• Finally, some good news - fewer fatalities

  Friday | via The Daily Gazette 

  The daily news hasn't been all that rosy lately. Rising gasoline prices, higher unemployment, floods, wildfires and home loan foreclosures have led the parade of doom and gloom across the land.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Illinois, Illinois Government, Opinion

• Obama's trip: 1st high-profile step on world stage

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Earthlink 

  More Obama's trip: 1st high-profile step on world stage July 17, 2008 6:04 PM EDT WASHINGTON - Sen.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, John McCain, Travel, Middle East, Israel Travel, Israel Travel

• Analysis: GOP, Dems using wars to define Obama

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Earthlink 

  Republican John McCain hopes to sell the idea that his rival is not. The return of Iraq and Afghanistan to the forefront of the presidential campaign illustrates how both sides increasingly seem to view the ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, US Military, US Navy, George Bush, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  3 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  4 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  4 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  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

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  5 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA