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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

• CoolSprings Galleria plans 200,000 square-foot expansion

  Yesterday | via The News-Examiner 

  Retail sales are dismal. The housing market is struggling. And CoolSprings Galleria is expanding.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Marketing, Chattanooga (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System

• Protest Over Elderly Det Woman Losing Home

  Friday | via WWJ-AM Southfield 

  Dozens of people gathered at the home of an elderly disabled woman to protest the foreclosure of her home in Detroit.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• SEC records: Foreclosure attorney owns 75 percent of McCain regional HQ building

  Thursday Jul 17 | via MichiganLiberal 

  I've been meaning to track this down the last couple of days, but got really, really busy.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Farmington Hills, MI, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro

• Anti-Capitalist Bloc @the RNC

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Chicago.indymedia.org 

  On "Labor Day" 2008, and throughout the Republican National Convention , tens of thousands of people from our community and from across the Unites States will protest against the GOP's pro-corporate policies of ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Southern University System, New Orleans (Southern University System), Life, Holidays, Labor Day

• Comerica second-quarter profit dives 71 percent

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Detroit News 

  Comerica Inc.'s second-quarter profit dropped to $56 million, down 71 percent from the $196 million it earned in the second quarter of last year, the bank announced Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Comerica, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Inflation takes hold in Europe

  Yesterday | via Detroit News 

  It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan

• University comes to Michigan's rescue

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Holland Sentinel 

  As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)

• Big players in real estate now on the same team

  Thursday Jul 17 | via LivingstonDaily 

  Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.

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  Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Michigan, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• An unconstitutional amendment

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily 

  What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via KansasCity.com 

  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: Foreclosures, Housing, George Bush, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtor notes

  4 hrs ago | via Star-Press 

  MUNCIE -- Monte Needler, vice president of Coldwell Banker Lunsford, has announced the firm's residential sales and listing leaders for the week ending July 14.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Muncie, IN, Muncie Metro

• Don't count on Fed bailout for plunging U.S. currency

  4 hrs ago | via SFGate 

  The U.S. currency is not going to get a bailout, even though its steep decline is feeding inflation and straining the economy.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Essex, CT, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Tips quicken chances for home sale

  4 hrs ago | via Fort Collins Coloradoan 

  Even though we are in mid-July there are still new listing coming on the market each day.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Helping houses remain homes

  4 hrs ago | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Two years ago, Germaine Thomas and her husband, Anthony, moved with their five children into a house in an upscale neighborhood in Prince George's County .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Morgan State University