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Congress get earful - Chattanooga Times Free Press
WASHINGTON — After casting one of the most controversial votes in their tenure on the $700 billion mortgage-backed securities rescue plan, members of Congress returned home this past week and faced constituents divided over the package and anxious ...
2008-10-11 09:00:00 -
Money scams don't slow down in bad economic times - Los Angeles Times
Bad economic times can be boom times for scammers. "What we have historically seen is that the predators go after people when they're desperate," said Frank Dorman, spokesman for the Federal Trade Commission. "It's when people can't pay their bills ...
2008-10-04 11:52:00 -
The economy: Main Street seeks answers - Herald News
• Financial crisis: Create Mortgage and Financial Institutions trust aimed at protecting individual homes and savings and working with troubled financial institutions to avert expensive bailouts and bankruptcies. Advocates financial reforms to make ...
2008-10-11 06:51:00 -
Crisis Pushes Down Individuals' Savings; What Scheme Is Next? - The Ledger
I sure feel like we have been well-bailed-out already, even before the process has really started. I'm sure that many of you have fared worse. Fortunately, we did not own any bank stocks. Bank fees will go up even more. Interest on checking accounts ...
2008-10-11 10:11:00 -
Bush, allies seek to calm jittery investors - KTAR.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush and financial leaders from nations rich and poor pledged Saturday to intensify their efforts to unblock a frozen financial system before it does more damage to an increasingly shaky global economy. While there were no ...
2008-10-11 03:09:00 -
What's America's new place in world? - Detroit News
When I lived in Buenos Aires in the late 1980s as a correspondent for The Washington Post, Argentina's economy was going through spasms of hyperinflation. My office was in the heart of the financial district, where banks and currency traders had ...
2008-10-11 09:57:00 -
Mortgage Guru Answer Questions - Hispa MP3
Com helps entrepreneurs, small and growing businesses, consultants and business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world. The Insolvency Network team has extensive commercial experience in business and personal insolvency procedures ...
2008-10-11 09:14:00 -
Looking over the field (Evansville Courier & Press)
INDIANAPOLIS — If the Nov. 4 election for Indiana governor is a referendum on the job Mitch Daniels has done over the past four years, then the state's economy could be the biggest factor in determining whether voters send him back for another four.
2008-10-11 10:14:14 -
Candidates to replace Weller talk priority No. 1: The economy (The Pantagraph)
SPRINGFIELD -- When the race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller got under way this spring, top issues on the agenda included the war in Iraq and immigration. | INTERACTIVE VIDEO: Create your own 11th District debate | VIDEO: Should economic meltdown scare Flick? | Fate of Bush tax cuts key in 18th District
2008-10-11 10:27:15 -
Former FDIC leader Hove optimistic for recovery, but when? (Lincoln Journal Star)
Andrew “Skip” Hove, unflappable as you might wish a banker to be, has seen turmoil in the financial industry that in some ways was worse than what you’re seeing now.
2008-10-11 10:28:12 -
Experts: All signs point to a slow recovery (Pioneer Press)
Editor's note: A global financial meltdown continued this week, despite extraordinary interventions by the U.S. government and the world's central banks to rescue critical financial institutions and encourage credit to flow again. On Monday, as the financial markets continued to plummet, Nicole Garrison-Sprenger of the Pioneer Press gathered Twin Cities experts in banking, investment and home ...
2008-10-11 10:28:32 -
Leisure Living: Prices hold up in well-known Western second-home ... - Baltimore Sun
Ski season's coming, and with it the traditional flurry of sales in second-home markets in mountain resort towns in the West. Locals are hoping this season reverses the downhill slide in sales caused by the national housing recession and tight credit ...
2008-10-02 05:57:00 -
Will anything end the panic? - Guardian Unlimited
It was nineteen minutes to noon on Wednesday when Gordon Brown took the call from Mervyn King. With the seconds ticking away to the first Prime Minister's Questions since the summer break, the governor of the Bank of England had dramatic news: secret ...
2008-10-11 04:20:00 -
Cerberus eyes full ownership of GMAC - Detroit News
Cerberus Capital Management LP is exploring acquiring full ownership of GMAC Financial Services as part of far-reaching discussions with General Motors Corp., a source familiar with negotiations said Saturday. Cerberus, a private equity fund, already ...
2008-10-11 02:04:00 -
'Hockey Night in Canada' gets new anthem - International Herald Tribune
TORONTO : Saturday nights in Canada in the winter will now have a note of gold in them. After receiving nearly 15,000 entries, the song "Canadian Gold," written by an elementary school teacher from Alberta has been voted as the new anthem for CBC's ...
2008-10-11 05:53:00