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  • John DiStaso's Granite Status: Hodes defends use of mailers - The Union Leader

    John DiStaso's Granite Status: Hodes defends use of mailersThe Union Leader, NH - 24 minutes agoOur two Democratic House members and one GOP challenger weren't shy about taking what's commonly known as "special interest political action committee ...
    2008-02-06 09:09:33
  • Money funnies - Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online

    Money funniesSwarthmore College The Phoenix Online,  United States - 21 minutes agoIt was this endorsement of the New Year movie’s mass appeal that piqued my interest. So, among the piles of snooty art films I bought during my trip ...
    2008-02-06 09:11:51
  • House kills tax relief bill for elderly Proposal would have ... - Nashua Telegraph

    House kills tax relief bill for elderly Proposal would have ...Nashua Telegraph, NH - 20 minutes agoCONCORD – A Nashua Democratic legislator lost a battle Wednesday to keep alive a proposed mortgage loan program for cash-strapped, senior citizen homeowners ...
    2008-02-06 09:13:21
  • Do Bond Insurers Need CPR? - BusinessWeek

    Do Bond Insurers Need CPR?BusinessWeek - 11 minutes agoAnd the concept only caught fire after the 1994 bankruptcy filing of Orange County, Calif. Ever since, bond insurance has largely been used by local ...
    2008-02-06 09:22:32
  • Too close to home: coming to grips with the credit squeeze - Money Management

    Too close to home: coming to grips with the credit squeezeMoney Management, Australia - 5 minutes agoIt is not often we see lenders changing their mortgage interest rates outside the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate cycle, which now sees cash rate ...
    2008-02-06 09:28:35
  • E.P.I.S.D Employee Faces Porn Charges (KFOX 14 El Paso)

    EL PASO, Texas -- Fernando Parra, the El Paso Independent School District employee facing three child porn charges, gets a $50,000 bond and then sees it appealed.
    2008-02-06 08:50:40
  • Portrait of a nation (The Age)

    Wired, richer, indebted and paranoid about crime - that's Australia in 2008.
    2008-02-06 09:13:55
  • Four money lessons from Fred Flintstone (MSN Money Canada)

    We rose from the primordial ooze primed to say 'charge it.' But we can learn to save for tomorrow despite being hard-wired to spend today. Really. -More is always better than less.
    2008-02-06 09:13:58
  • John DiStaso's Granite Status: Hodes defends use of mailers (New Hampshire Union Leader)

    The congressman said yesterday his five 2007 taxpayer-funded constituent mass mailers did not take liberties with a House regulation forbidding the use of such material to "solicit political support."
    2008-02-06 09:18:43
  • House kills tax relief bill for elderly Proposal would have created mortgage loan program By KEVIN LANDRIGAN (The Nashua Telegraph)

    CONCORD -- A Nashua Democratic legislator lost a battle Wednesday to keep alive a proposed mortgage loan program for cash-strapped, senior citizen homeowners who can't afford to pay their local property taxes. ... - Telegraph Staff
    2008-02-06 09:21:12
  • Daily Briefing

    Atlanta Journal Constitution - Chief Executive Robert Toll, who months ago thought the housing market could be dancing along the bottom, said that despite historically low mortgage rates and falling home prices, a slowing economy could be spooking buyers. TRADE WTO upholds India's ...
    2008-02-06 08:36:00
  • Interest rates not deterring ownership dream

    News.com.au - BALLOONING house prices and rising interest rates have not stopped people from achieving ... per cent in 1994-96 to 34 per cent in 2005-06, while the proportion with a mortgage rose from 28 per cent to 35 per cent. "The decline in outright home ...
    2008-02-06 08:50:00
  • Toll Brothers quarterly sales fall 22%

    AZCentral.com - ... at the end of the tunnel" in the housing malaise. On Wednesday, Toll Brothers said home-building revenue fell by 22 percent in the first quarter, its seventh-consecutive quarterly decline. Toll said that despite low mortgage rates and falling home ...
    2008-02-06 07:17:00
  • Stocks lower at noon amid US inflation concerns - WA Business News (subscription)

    Stocks lower at noon amid US inflation concernsWA Business News (subscription), Australia - 3 hours agoIn banking, Westpac today became the second major player to increase its variable mortgage interest rates, following an official rise by the Reserve Bank on ...
    2008-02-06 06:02:33
  • 'Greedy' banks push up mortgage rates - Telegraph.co.uk

    'Greedy' banks push up mortgage ratesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours ago... mortgage bills before an expected cut in interest rates by the Bank of England. While a cut today should bring some respite for struggling home owners, ...
    2008-02-06 06:04:55