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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

• Welcoming foreclosure

  3 hrs ago | via Columbus Dispatch 

  Ralph Stover, 52, fears he won't be able to keep his condo when his mortgage rate resets.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Columbus Metro, Columbus, OH, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Campaign set to help pay Turning Point mortgage

  20 hrs ago | via Central Ohio 

  Officials for Turning Point visited Marion City Council on Monday to promote the 10 From 10,000 Times 10 campaign to raise enough money to pay off the mortgage for the Turning Point facility.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Marion, OH, Delaware County, OH, Delaware, OH

• Huntington's earnings strong

  Yesterday | via Columbus Dispatch 

  Investors looking for good news found it yesterday, as Huntington Bancshares Corp.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Huntington Bancshares, Columbus Metro, Columbus, OH, Home, Mortgage

• Huntington reports strong quarter

  Thursday | via Columbus Dispatch 

  Investors looking for good news found it today, as Huntington Bancshares Corp. announced better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Huntington Bancshares, Columbus Metro, Columbus, OH, Home, Mortgage

• Hondros Learning Selected by Chicago Association of REALTORS, Online ...

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Press Release News From 24-7 Press Release 

  Chicago Association of REALTORS , the fourth-largest local real estate association board in the country, has begun offering real estate online continuing education courses in partnership with Hondros Learning.

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  Related Topix: Columbus, OH, Real Estate, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System

Regional Headlines

• Job losses rise in June

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Columbus Dispatch 

  You need to look back to 1981 to find two months in which Ohio's jobless rate rose as much as it did in May and June.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield (University of Illinois System), Ohio, US News, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, Ohio Government, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Making Ohio's Economy Grow

  Yesterday | via The Intelligencer 

  Like most other states, Ohio has taken its share of battering as the nation's economy struggles with challenges ranging from high gasoline prices to the "subprime mortgage crisis." Here in the Ohio Valley, ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Ohio, Ohio Government, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• Feeling the Pinch -- Getting through a tough economy

  Yesterday | via WTOL-TV Toledo 

  Your job and retirement From finding and landing a job to recession-proofing your current job.

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

• Post a comment

  Thursday | via The Plain Dealer 

  After a fairly good week for banks, eyes will turn next week to the financial results of Northeast Ohio's big banks, which have gained national attention for their mortgage-induced pain.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Huntington Bancshares, National City Corporation

• Poll Finds Massive 'Whining' in Florida, Ohio

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Daily Kos 

  In a new survey, Health Care and the Economy in Two Swing States: A Look at Ohio and Florida , National Public Radio, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health found that ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ohio, Ohio Government, Ohio University

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  11 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'

  16 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

  20 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?

  20 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

  20 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