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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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• Dick Meyer: Fannie's Lesson: The Real Scandals Are Legal

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Huffington Post 

  I know the prospect of reading a column about Fannie Mae, the mortgage crisis and government bailouts is as appealing as a bowl of cough syrup.

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• Fannie's Lesson: The Real Scandals Are Legal

  Thursday Jul 17 | via NPR 

  "Fannie Mae has been a government-sponsored wealth generator for its executives.

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• Media Advisory -- 2008 Release Schedule for American Community Survey Data

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via US Census Bureau 

  Releases CB08-CN.63 The U.S. Census Bureau will release data from the 2007 American Community Survey beginning Aug.

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• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac shares slide

  Friday Jul 11 | via New Mexico Business Weekly 

  Shares of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fell to their lowest levels in more than 17 years on concerns about a government bailout for the firms.

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• Housing Bill's Tax Credit Draws Criticism

  Monday Jul 7 | via Free Republic 

  U.S. lawmakers are touting a home-buyer tax credit in a high-profile housing bill before Congress, but critics say it may do little to help consumers amid the mortgage crisis.

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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

  14 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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• Words from the

  18 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

  22 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

  24 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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