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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

Regional Headlines

• Congress approves housing bill

  1 hr ago | via WNED.org 

  The U.S. Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and setting up a $300-billion fund to help hundreds of ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush's desk for signature

  5 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn were among the 13 GOP senators who voted against the emergency housing legislation.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Housing, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, John McCain, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• How Texas Congress members voted

  5 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  How the Texas congressional delegation voted on selected issues last week: Senate * 1. Housing rescue: Agreed, 80-13, to debate a House-passed bill that would potentially bail out the housing-finance companies ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Foreclosures, US Politics, John McCain, Texas

• Holding Steady

  Yesterday | via Report news 

  Business YAHOO! Business videos Saturday, July 26, 2008 Year Homes sold Ave. Price Ave.

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  Related Topix: Hardin-Simmons University, Texas, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• US Congress clears huge housing bill

  11 hrs ago | via The Peninsula 

  WASHINGTON * The US Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill yesterday, offering emergency financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and setting up a $300bn fund to help hundreds of ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Texas, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  4 min ago | via North County Journal 

  It took fears of a market collapse to push President George W. Bush and Congress to compromise on election-year mortgage help for struggling homeowners.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Housing, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lawsuit dropped over SoCal congresswoman's home

  6 min ago | via Fox News 

  A man who paid $388,000 for a congresswoman's home dropped a lawsuit that claimed she got special treatment when a bank rescinded the foreclosure, it was reported Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Raise a glass of best Chateau Sucker

  6 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  Frankly, I've been getting tired of all the bad news. Every day brings new reports of job losses, price increases, industrial collapse, increasing debt, stock exchange plunges, pension erosion and general ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Train Disaster, Opinion

• US shuts down two more banks

  8 min ago | via Times of Oman 

  WASHINGTON: The US Treasury has shut down two affiliated western banks as the impact of the US real estate crash rolls through the country's financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: Reno, NV, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A healthy market

  3 hrs ago | via The Daily Advertiser 

  The home buying boom in Lafayette is leveling off, and with national stories of lending disasters and foreclosures tempering the market, local builders are trying to assure potential buyers.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Baton Rouge, LA, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Lafayette, LA