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• New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
  
  New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller     It’s fight time in New York. On one side is newly-passed state legislation which sets tough standards for subprime and “high cost” loans and on the other is Freddie Mac, which says it won’t buy such loans in the state after September 1st, the day the new law goes into effect. This is a big deal because if New York lenders can’t sell mortgages to buyers such as Freddie Mac, they simply won’t make such loans. You can guess what happens next:
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Fight in Congress Looms on Tax Break for Home Buyers
  
  Fight in Congress Looms on Tax Break for Home Buyers The New York Times DALLAS — When Congress passed an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers last winter, it was intended as a dose of shock therapy during a crisis. Now the question is becoming...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  Meanwhile, the rising flood of foreclosures promises to become a major presidential campaign issue in the weeks and months ahead because an alarming 2 million American homeowners could lose their homes by November 2008. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to put an end to prepayment penalties for home mortgages and to set up a $2 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Sensing an opportunity
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    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 briefly from favorable financing. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
  
  Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home values will combine to hold back the nation’s economic activity. Conference of Mayors .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure "Megatrends"
  
  Home prices are falling. In a presidential year, Uncle Sam and politicians nationwide are rushing to unveil new and bolder schemes to unravel the foreclosure crisis. As federal, state and local government weighs in of the rising foreclosure mess, look for new plans to halt the foreclosure train wreck. Lawyers in California — for a fee, of course — will show you how Foreclosures are rising. Sales are down.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
  
  Moreover, the intensification of financial market turmoil is likely to exert additional restraint on spending, partly by further reducing the ability of households and businesses to obtain credit.” rdquo; The New York Times reported Wednesday that in a speech delivered the day before to members of the National Association for Business Economics, Bernanke said the economic turmoil has caused the Fed to downgrade its “already-gloomy economic outlook.” In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Thursday, December 18, 2008
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• Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
  
  More specifically, however, the Fed announcement highlighted a number of factors for its decision such as subdued household and business spending, soft labor markets, stressed out financial markets, tight credit conditions and the continuation of the housing contraction. economy — no matter how slight it is — the New York Times is reporting that the current situation does not fit into the classic definition of a recession, which is a "significant decline in economic activity spread acorss the economy, lasting more than a few months." One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  See: From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess, The New York Times, Feb. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through a loan modification or re-financing, stay in their homes.” Its not the governments job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford.” Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  home mortgages. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. billion direct line of credit with the U.S. Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller    Its been a rough year for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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