Mortgage Debt Consolidation

Back in ancient Rome, politicians had a trick for winning votes when debts got too high. They would campaign on a platform of wiping out existing debts. They promised a tabula rasa , a “blank slate.” These days, we don’t go for anything as crude as a …

US Senate approves housing bill (BBC News)
The US Senate passes a rescue bill designed to help the rising number of Americans at risk of having their homes repossessed.

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NEW YORK - Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market s recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 280 points. The National Association of Realtors said sales resumed their decline in June after a slight rebound in May. Existing home sales declined by 2.6 p

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Dow Drops 200 Points On Housing Data
Associated Press July 24, 2008 NEW YORK (AP) Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market s recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 280 points. The National Association of Realtors said sales resumed their decline in June after a slight r

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2008jul26. Ron Paul on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 2002. Again: 2002. However, despite the long-term damage to the economy inflicted by the government s interference in the housing market, the government s policies of diverting capital to other uses creates a short-term boom in housing. Like all artificially-created bubbles, the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall, homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out. Furthermore, the holders

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NEW YORK - Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower yesterday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing-home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market’s recent optimism. The major …

Home loans double for entry buyers (Busselton-Dunsborough Mail)
THE mortgage debt of first-home buyers has more than doubled in the past decade. The snapshot of social trends paints a stark picture of the growing pressures facing hundreds of thousands of people who have recently taken out their first home loan.

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by Ray Lam Over the past several years, there have been a few companies that have released computer software that will help you to create a debt reduction plan, without the need for any kind of professional assistance. You enter all your credit and debt information and the software will create a customized repayment plan and budget for you. Some of the more popular debt management software include Rapid Debt Reducer, Debt Eraser s Rapid Debt Reduction Plan and Snapshot Gold. Each program works

Dow Drops 200 Points On Housing Data
Associated Press July 24, 2008 NEW YORK (AP) Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market s recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 280 points. The National Association of Realtors said sales resumed their decline in June after a slight r

Housing bill clears test, foreclosure halt asked (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Housing market rescue legislation cleared a procedural test vote in the U.S. Senate on Friday ahead of final passage expected on Saturday, and lawmakers asked banks to suspend further foreclosures until a new mortgage refinancing program gets going on October 1.

Mortgage giants are crucial to the housing market - Austin American-Statesman
CHICAGO Behind their down-home names, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so vital to the economy that the government is scrambling to offer them a financial lifeline. But what exactly are they, and what do they do? They are the engines behind a …

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NEW YORK (AP) _ Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market’s recent optimism. The major …

Stocks plunge on weak housing data, oil rebound; Dow drops 283 (USA Today)
Stocks abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market’s recent optimism.

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Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market’s recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 280 points.

Mortgage giants are crucial to the housing market - Austin American-Statesman
CHICAGO Behind their down-home names, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so vital to the economy that the government is scrambling to offer them a financial lifeline. But what exactly are they, and what do they do? They are the engines behind a …

Dow ends day down more than 280 - MSNBC
NEW YORK - Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market s recent optimism. The major …

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The US House of Representatives has passed major legislation aimed at limiting the economic fallout from the US housing crisis.

House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The House of Representatives passed a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the Great Depression.

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Asian markets open the Thursday session firmer, with financial firms seen rising on hopes of a bailout for the two top U.S. mortgage lenders, while a stronger U.S. dollar buoys exporters such as Japan’s Canon . [ FRE Loading …

Does Trickle-Down Work? It Depends!
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” As the B

Editorial: The nation gets further in debt - Enterprise-Journal
Congress and President Bush have little choice but to prop up the mortgage loan business with an infusion of taxpayer money into the housing market. It s either that or face a worse economic decline than the nation is already experiencing. Still …

Debt capitalism self-destructs
Debt capitalism self-destructs Posted in Uncategorized by eldib on July 22nd, 2008 Debt capitalism self-destructs By Henry C K Liu In a period of less than a year, what had been described by US authorities as a temporary financial problem related to the bursting the housing bubble has turned into a fully fledged crisis at the very core of free-market capitalism. A handful of analysts have been warning for years that the wholesale deregulation of financial markets and the wrong-h

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By now you ve heard about the Fannie, Freddie and IndyMac crisis and probably wondering what this means for you? After all, if you re in the market to buy a home, own a home, or have money in the bank you re at the very least concerned. The viability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae, the nations largest holder of mortgage backed securities was at risk due to the US mortgage crisis prompting the federal government to step in. IndyMac falling along the same lines also prompting government invol

Tax relief aims at mortgage debt (Miami Herald)
There is now tax relief for struggling homeowners, says the IRS, if your mortgage debt was or is partly or entirely forgiven during 2007, 2008 or 2009.

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File Bankruptcy to Stop Foreclosure, Even if The Bank is Already Suing You June 25, 2008, 11:39 am Although many homeowners consider bankruptcy as one of the last options to avoid losing a property, many seem unclear on just how late they can wait to file, and how it will affect the foreclosure lawsuit. They may believe that, since the bank has already sued for foreclosure, filing bankruptcy might not have the desired result of ending that lawsuit. However, it is still possible to file and see

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