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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

• Exclusive on the Web:

  Monday Jul 14 | via Commercial Property News 

  GFI Management Services said that Frederick Mehlman will be joining the company as chief executive officer.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Coral Gables, FL, Real Estate

• Orrstown files mortgage foreclosures against Rufe Chevrolet

  Jun 4, 2008 | via Cumberlink.com 

  Orrstown Bank has filed mortgage foreclosures against Rufe Chevrolet Inc. to the tune of $2 million.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Cumberland County, PA, Orrstown, PA, Carlisle, PA

• Teachers Picket

  Mar 7, 2008 | via WHP-TV Harrisburg 

  On Friday teachers in Cumberland County hit the picket lines to draw attention to their contract negotiations.

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  Related Topix: Cumberland County, PA, Personal Finance, Mortgage

• Selling Tainted Homes

  Feb 29, 2008 | via WHP-TV Harrisburg 

  Tom, Lisa and Kevin Haines are stabbed to death inside their Manheim Township, Lancaster County home.

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  Related Topix: Cumberland County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Home Listing, Home, Home Selling

• Former Council President Joins Convention Center Board

  Jan 25, 2008 | via WGAL.com 

  The Lancaster Convention Center Authority Board has a new member. Julianne Dickson, the former president of the Lancaster City Council, replaces Joe Morales.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Cumberland County, PA, Lancaster Metro, Lancaster, PA

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  9 hrs ago | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

• Don Spatz,

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg 

  Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania

• Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results

  Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch 

  A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  13 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'

  17 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

• Failures of big banks fan fears of Staten Islanders

  22 min ago | via Pennlive.com 

  Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. The collapse of a major national bank and growing talk of government bailouts of other financial institutions on the brink have Staten Islanders wondering if their ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deposit, NY

• Suburbs, A Dream Too Real To Live?

  22 min ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. As the housing market implodes and financial institutions struggle, a difficult but necessary societal ...

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  Related Topix: Medicine, Alcoholism, Health, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Another sign

  22 min ago | via Brains and Eggs 

  "A taxpayer voting Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." A number of drivers on Twin City Highway Thursday might have seen this message on the sign in front of Bob Costilow Realtors.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, African-American, Mandeville, LA, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing