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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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Regional Headlines

• Internet Insite: Cheap, last-minute Minn. getaways

  Monday Jul 14 | via KAAL 

  Do you have an interesting Web site you'd like to see featured on Internet InSITE? Email Web Manager Justin Piehowski, jpiehowski@kstp.com . Watch INTERNET InSITE each Monday at 6:30 on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS ...

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  Related Topix: Twin Cities (University of Minnesota System), Housing, Lutsen, MN, Minnesota, Grand Marais, MN

• DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns

  Friday Jul 11 | via Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy 

  July 11, 2008 DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns After a year and a half study led by the University of Minnesota, planners have concluded Minnesota needs to better protect its ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Minnesota Government, Minnesota, Duluth (University of Minnesota System)

• MBIA Inc. Is Battered By Competition, Subprime Issues

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Hartford Courant 

  I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? - V.R. , via the Internet T he world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds tied to ...

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• Bond insurer MBIA's losses expected to grow

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Morning Call 

  Q: I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? V.R., via the Internet A: The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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• Good news for health care

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  We break from regularly scheduled programming for this special report: Good news! Competition is improving health care in Minnesota! We refer to the latest report from MN Community Measurement, a nonprofit ... 7 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota, Anoka, MN, Opinion

National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  11 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

• Words from the

  16 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

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  20 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments 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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• US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  22 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance