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  • Fed keeps key interest rate at record low - Baltimore Sun

    WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will inject about $1 trillion into America's economy in a bold effort to help the battered housing market and lift the U.S. out of recession. At the same time, the Fed left a key short-term ...
    2009-04-05 05:36:00
  • Jacqui's grilling - The Sun

    The Home Secretary, who earns £142,000 a year, also billed taxpayers for £335 worth of PLANT POTS . The freebies are revealed in a breakdown of the “scandalous” £150,000 she has drawn in second home costs since 2001. To see the expenses in ...
    2009-04-05 09:18:00
  • From Bubble to Depression? - Wall Street Journal

    Bubbles have been frequent in economic history, and they occur in the laboratories of experimental economics under conditions which -- when first studied in the 1980s -- were considered so transparent that bubbles would not be observed. We economists ...
    2009-04-05 07:31:00
  • Non-bank lenders claim mortgage relief - ninemsn

    Credit unions and building societies say they already offer hardship provisions for customers who lose their jobs. The four major banks have agreed to offer a 12 month period of relief from mortgage payments to retrenched workers, under a deal struck ...
    2009-04-05 06:55:00
  • Filing for bankruptcy? Know the facts and your options (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

    Depending on your income, Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 may be better for you.
    2009-04-05 08:59:14
  • Petition to challenge Spike's use of tax dollars (North Platte Telegraph)

    The North Platte Telegraph Members of a local watchdog group are organizing a petition to challenge use of the city's hotel tax to fund operation costs at the Golden Spike Tower and Visitors Center.
    2009-04-05 09:15:57
  • Deflation Dead at BlackRock; Inflation Debt Favored (Update1) (Bloomberg)

    April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Bond investors are earning more than ever with Treasury Inflation Protected Securities as central bankers around the world set the stage for a rise in consumer prices by deploying unprecedented amounts of money to battle the global recession.
    2009-04-05 09:22:57
  • Alliance backs calls for mortgage help for jobless (Scoop.co.nz)

    The Alliance Party is backing calls for banks to give a break to struggling borrowers who lose their jobs.
    2009-04-05 09:32:29
  • Jacqui's grilling (The Sun)

    EMBATTLED Home Sec faces new grilling over £200 expenses claim to buy BBQ
    2009-04-05 09:47:58
  • Complicated tax returns befuddle and frighten Americans (The Kansas City Star)

    For almost half a century, attorney J. Harlan Stamper has sorted through U.S. tax law. He’s only recently stepped back from preparing other people’s returns.
    2009-04-05 10:48:38
  • In case you missed it ... (The State)

    ACCOUNTING Hunter Howard, former S.C. Chamber of Commerce president, joined the Columbia accounting firm Scott McElveen: He become a partner for corporate advisory services. He will advise companies on mergers, acquisitions, ownership changes and other restructuring.
    2009-04-05 11:07:54
  • Home Shops: 'One Stop' on the Road to Foreclosure (Gotham Gazette)

    Haydee Sanchez first learned about United Homes of New York in 2001. While riding the F train on her daily commute to her job on the Upper West Side, she saw an advertisement for the company with the slogan: "United Homes -We Make Your Dreams Come True."
    2009-04-05 11:14:27
  • Cashing in on a chain reaction (Stuff)

    They stand as the great survivors of the global financial crisis and have emerged as some of the biggest banks in the world.
    2009-04-05 11:25:09
  • Who is looking out for you? - Asbury Park Press

    There was just one problem: They couldn't find their mortgage broker. "You know when you just have a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach?" asked Rubino, 27. "I had that." The mortgage industry, under fire for its role in the economic meltdown, is ...
    2009-04-05 10:48:00
  • Mechanicsburg mortgage company denied new license - Springfield News Sun

    Springfield, Ohio — A Mechanicsburg Mortgage company was named in an enforcement order by the Ohio Department of Commerce after its owner was found to have provided false statements for an application to renew a mortgage broker certificate of ...
    2009-04-02 07:34:00