Mortgage crisis here may be worse than reported
Dorothy Gary never lost her home, but the senior citizen's oversized 24 percent mortgage rate brought her awfully, awfully close.
Read more News Source - The Buffalo News
Publish date - 13:33:39 01/05/09

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United Way fund helps struggling families
As the economy worsens, the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona is stepping up to help struggling families. For the first time ever, the local United Way has established an Economic Crisis Assistance
Read more News Source - KVOA Tucson
Publish date - 01:03:43 01/06/09

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Baack in the black
Julii and Ryan Baack, former mortgage loan officers turned co-owners of Plato’s Closet, say there is more to a successful business than making a ton of money.
Read more News Source - McKinney Courier-Gazette
Publish date - 07:29:13 01/06/09

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WSJ’s Good Vehicle for Explaining Subprime Mess
Just wanted to make sure you saw this great A1 story in the Journal on Saturday. Reporter Michael M. Phillips tells the tale of the subprime mortgages crisis through a single ramshackle homestead in Arizona. It’s just about note-perfect.
Read more News Source - Columbia Journalism Review
Publish date - 21:14:32 01/05/09

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Mortgage crisis spurs tougher rules
INDIANAPOLIS — Becoming a mortgage broker in Indiana used to be easy. Too easy. There were no background checks to weed out people convicted of financial crimes, no tests to see whether brokers actually took required classes and understood the complex mortgage world.
Read more News Source - Bedford Times-Mail
Publish date - 15:58:07 01/03/09

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Economists seek solutions, signs of life in housing
Top economists at the Allied Social Sciences Association's annual meeting have been searching -- in some cases, in vain -- for signs of life in the U.S. housing market, a key element for busting the country out of a deep economic downturn.
Read more News Source - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Publish date - 23:57:21 01/05/09

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Euro Falls to Three-Week Low on Speculation ECB Will Cut Rates
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to a three-week low against the dollar and dropped versus the yen on speculation slowing inflation will give the European Central Bank scope to lower interest rates further.
Read more News Source - Bloomberg
Publish date - 10:47:56 01/06/09

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Euro Falls to Three-Week Low on Speculation ECB Will Cut Rates
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to a three-week low against the dollar and declined versus the yen before data that will probably show slowing regional inflation, giving the European Central Bank more room to lower interest rates.
Read more News Source - Bloomberg
Publish date - 08:47:50 01/06/09

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Service Industries in U.S. Probably Contracted Most on Record
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. service industries probably shrank in December at the fastest pace on record as consumers retrenched and the housing slump worsened, economists said before reports today.
Read more News Source - Bloomberg
Publish date - 07:02:40 01/06/09

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DMX's Foreclosed Home Robbed, "This Was Probably His Pride & Joy"
Incarcerated rapper DMX 's foreclosed Arizona home has been placed on the market for an estimated sale price of $429,000.
Read more News Source - SOHH.com
Publish date - 00:16:55 01/06/09

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