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  • State job-stimulus bill advances - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    The Democratic measure - dubbed the CORE Jobs bill, for Connecting Opportunity, Research and Entrepreneurship - passed the Joint Finance Committee unanimously. Republicans said they supported the plan but that it did not go far enough. The committee ...
    2010-01-14 10:05:00
  • Holder pressed on FBI's mortgage fraud focus - Los Angeles Times

    WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder told a commission investigating the financial crisis on Thursday he would find out whether anything was done in response to an FBI warning in 2004 of an "epidemic of mortgage fraud" that could plunge the ...
    2010-01-14 09:08:00
  • Obama aide: Free information flow key for China - YAHOO!

    "It seems to me that the principles that Google is trying to uphold are not just important in a moral or rights framework, but are also of very considerable economic importance," senior White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers told a small group ...
    2010-01-14 09:29:00
  • Democrats want economy like Europe's, Grassley claims - Quad-Cities Times

    Larry Fisher Senator Charles Grassley, center, tours Greystone Logistics in Bettendorf Thursday morning. Left is plant manager Ron Schelhaas and right is company CEO Warren Kruger. Grassley was in the Quad-Cities as part of a recess tour of several ...
    2010-01-14 10:48:00
  • Business news briefs - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    In China's first official response to Google's threat to leave the country, the government yesterday said foreign Internet companies were welcome but must obey the law and gave no hint of a possible compromise over Web censorship. Foreign ministry ...
    2010-01-14 11:31:00
  • Economist says jobless recovery is showing glimmers of hope - Dispatch

    The good news is that the longest and deepest recession on record since the Great Depression, which started in December 2007, ended in May or June of last year. And the stock market has largely recovered to the point that many people will actually ...
    2010-01-14 11:17:00
  • Strengthening U.S. Recovery May Intensify Fed Debate on Exit - Bloomberg

    Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials are more confident the U.S. economy is moving toward self-sustaining growth, giving urgency to discussions about the tactics and timing of an exit from record-low interest rates. Kansas City Fed Bank ...
    2010-01-14 10:55:00
  • Obama aide: Free information flow key for China - Reuters

    Obama aide: Free information flow key for ChinaReutersSummers was also pressed on the administration's views on the structure of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He said the administration would be ...and more »
    2010-01-14 09:33:00
  • Property Sector May Be Limited by Lending - Choices

    Property Sector May Be Limited by LendingChoicesThis has fuelled the standpoint of major mortgage and financial lenders. The Lenders' Expectation report, the first carried out by Jones Lang LaSalle, ...
    2010-01-14 09:59:37
  • Job retraining program welcomes white-collar workers - Los Angeles Times

    Job retraining program welcomes white-collar workersLos Angeles TimesThe aim is to help the thousands of Los Angeles County mortgage brokers, escrow agents and others who were laid off in the housing downturn. ...
    2010-01-14 10:04:36
  • Where is S. Korean economy heading for in 2010? - Xinhua

    Where is S. Korean economy heading for in 2010?XinhuaAs the economy was exposed to the sub-prime mortgage, which triggered the global financial crisis, at the minimum level, with domestic financial ...and more »
    2010-01-14 10:51:56
  • Economist says jobless recovery is showing glimmers of hope - Lexington Dispatch

    Economist says jobless recovery is showing glimmers of hopeLexington DispatchThe rate of mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures has also slowed down. He said the federal tax credits for first-time homebuyers last year helped spur ...
    2010-01-14 10:56:04
  • D.C. Witness Protection Program - Wall Street Journal

    Wall Street JournalD.C. Witness Protection ProgramWall Street JournalAlso missing this week was anyone from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants that turbocharged the housing boom. With their implicit taxpayer ...and more »
    2010-01-14 11:00:10
  • Bay Area hotel problems mount - Contra Costa Times

    Bay Area hotel problems mountContra Costa TimesDozens of other hotels in the Bay Area have fallen behind on their mortgage payments. Others have been seized by lenders through foreclosures, ...and more »
    2010-01-14 11:03:33
  • High-flying developer takes a dive - Dispatch Online

    High-flying developer takes a diveDispatch OnlineInvestec then proposed to Natasen that if the property was sold by it for more than the value of the R53.6m mortgage bonds, Investec would use the surplus ...
    2010-01-14 11:10:08