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Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People
Are you too busy to pay much attention to your money? Do you worry that maybe you haven’t been doing the right things? Jane Bryant Quinn, the trusted voice in personal finance journalist, helps you… -
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Temas De La Vida Real
La compra de una vivienda es un camino principal para alcanzar la seguridad financiera y ayuda a que las comunidades permanezcan estables. Esta publicación, disponible en español e inglés en el popular formato de historieta,… -
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True Life Stories
Homeownership is a primary path to achieving financial security, and homeownership helps communities remain stable. This publication, available in Spanish and English in the popular "novella" (comic book) style, addresses some of the key mortgage,… -
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Consumer/civil liberties response to housing bill
WASHINGTON, DC – October 24, 2007 - A coalition of consumer groups who work on housing and predatory lending issues released a statement today in reaction to legislation* introduced by Reps. Brad Miller (D-NC), Mel… -
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Watered-down mortgage reform
What a difference a day makes. Just yesterday, this page praised the House Financial Services Committee for producing an exemplary bill, the Mortgage Reform and Antipredatory Lending Act of 2007, and urged its members to… -
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Anti-predatory lending advice in Spanish
Americans for Fairness in Lending (AFFIL) announced today that it has launched a new Spanish-language website [http://www.affil.org/es] to help counter predatory lending practices that target Spanish speakers in America. AFFIL’s… -
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How not to prevent foreclosures
With foreclosures surging, the last thing the nation needs is another government-hosted meeting where mortgage lenders pledge once again to do their utmost to help distressed borrowers stay in their homes — and then go… -
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Wrong relief
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have joined hands and are marching to rescue the U.S. housing market. Far be it from us to rain on this bipartisan parade, which would marshal such measures as… -
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CA to Congress: Protect homeowners and taxpayers
As Congress decides how and if they should toss a trillion dollar life preserver to the sinking financial services industry today, Consumer Action (CA) urges lawmakers to prevent millions more homeowners from losing their homes… -
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Good homeowners, bad loans
FOR those who championed a hands-off approach to the supervision of finance, the economic meltdown should have prompted reflection on the value of common-sense regulation. Unfortunately, a growing chorus in conservative circles is trying to… -
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A return to thrift
Sometimes it takes a near-death experience to change bad behavior. Think of your friend who quit smoking after a coronary incident. Or look at how banks are reducing their dependency on debt after watching rivals… -
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Fading housing hope
PASSED BY Congress in July and put into effect on Oct. 1, the federal government’s Hope for Homeowners program was billed as strong medicine for the twin ills of rampant foreclosures and sagging home prices.… -
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It’s the regulations, not the regulator
It has become a truism of the financial crisis that the system was prone to collapse because there was no single regulator who had the legal tools and authority to prevent a systemwide meltdown. That… -
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Our lending law is worth saving
Everyone knows that lawmaking in Congress can be a crazy and confusing process. That’s part of the genius of the American system: It takes a lot of hard work and compromise to get a majority… -
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Busted
“Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown” is a personal and journalistic look at the free-wheeling lending that led to our nation’s housing crisis. A veteran New York Times economics reporter, Edmund L. Andrews was… -
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Financial reform endgame
So here’s the situation. We’ve been through the second-worst financial crisis in the history of the world, and we’ve barely begun to recover: 29 million Americans either can’t find jobs or can’t find full-time work.… -
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More homeowners turn to mediation after foreclosure
When Mark Weeks was laid off from his $90,000-a-year construction job 2½ years ago,he vowed to hang onto his family’s house here, where he’d lived with his wife, their three children and two dogs for… -
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Owners stop paying mortgages, and stop fretting
For Alex Pemberton and Susan Reboyras, foreclosure is becoming a way of life — something they did not want but are in no hurry to get out of. Foreclosure has allowed them to stabilize the… -
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Countrywide customers to be repaid $108 million for overcharges
Bank of America, owner of former mortgage giant Countrywide Financial, will pay $108 million in refunds to hundreds of thousands of homeowners under one of the largest judgments imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. The… -
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FTC wins Countrywide settlement, but celebrates too early
It’s an all-too-familiar Washington story. Officials call a news conference to pat themselves on the back for righting a wrong they shouldn’t have allowed in the first place. Meanwhile, the hapless victims are left to… -
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More dropouts in mortgage relief program
The Obama administration’s marquee foreclosure-prevention initiative continues to struggle, as government data released Monday show that fewer homeowners are enrolling in the program and more are losing their federal mortgage aid. Lenders enrolled homeowners into… -
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Fannie Mae gets tough on homeowners who walk away
Taking aim at homeowners who are able to pay their mortgage but decide it’s not worth it, Fannie Mae plans to go after them in court and to limit their access to home loans for… -
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Big job looms for new consumer protection agency
When he took charge of the new Environmental Protection Agency in December 1970, William Ruckelshaus wasted no time flexing his muscle and clobbering polluters. Nine days after the EPA opened its doors, the Republican official… -
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What Wall Street reform means for your mortgage
Predatory lending would likely become a thing of the past if proposed regulatory reform rules are put into practice. And that may mean that mortgages get more expensive and more difficult to get, lenders warn.… -
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Loan giants threaten energy-efficiency programs
The Obama administration is devoting $150 million in stimulus money for programs that help homeowners install solar panels and other energy improvements, which they pay for over time on their property tax bills. At…
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