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I won’t say too much here because I don’t know enough about the world of real estate and mortgages to clarify what I’ve seen/heard from other sources. (I also haven’t seen this covered here as yet.) But as I listened to one of my sports podcasts at the...
by Rando Calrissian
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 02:21 PM PDT
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More homeowners than ever need flood insurance. Fewer than ever can afford it. By� Lois Parshley �for Grist/EHRP This story is the second in a �
by Economic Hardship Reporting Project
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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I had a conversation the other day with my vet. (It’s okay, it was just a checkup to get Abner’s Rx for heartworm renewed.) He was relatively new to the office. He brought up Biden’s $10K student loan forgiveness. He had some pretty complicated...
by TexDem
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on Fri Aug 26, 2022 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Is anyone else troubled by the fact that government sponsored agencies will fund mortgages on $1 million homes? See this article, which says that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be allowed to increase their lending limits to fund $1 million homes. This...
by Clean Freak
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on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 06:50 AM PST
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Writing this because of the expiration tomorrow of the temporary protection from eviction for people whose rent or mortgages are through Federal programs (which means in 30 days if in default they ...
by teacherken
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on Fri Jul 24, 2020 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Trump wants an airline bailout. Maxine Waters has a plan to save working people and small businesses The Senate may possibly get around to voting on the House coronavirus response bill that includes paid sick leave for many workers, expanded unemployment insurance, and free coronavirus testing. The House, meanwhile, is moving ahead with the next...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Mar 19, 2020 at 05:56 AM PDT
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While our president tries to come up with the best ways to blame others and scam his corrupt, incompetent ass out of our current global pandemic, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has begun taking steps to help relieve some of the more pressing economic...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 18, 2020 at 02:58 PM PDT
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If there’s one taboo that isn’t discussed enough in the American cultural sphere, it’s money. While this subject often comes up in terms of salary negotiations or pay disparities between sexes and races, there are other ways our lack of education and...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Sep 10, 2019 at 09:34 AM PDT
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The financial industry isn’t done victimizing homeowners, leading to a new mortgage crisis hitting struggling senior citizens. USA Today reports on how lenders have targeted majority black neighborhoods for shady reverse mortgages, leaving elderly...
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Jun 12, 2019 at 01:35 PM PDT
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The million-dollar Brownstone
This article on the shenanigans that brought on the housing crisis of 2008, which was reposted on Google+, shows just how deep the rot went, and how it is still contaminating the housing market today. It didn’t end. ...
by strawbale
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on Sun Aug 19, 2018 at 12:57 PM PDT
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The first rule of the kleptocracy we currently live in is clearly "heads I win, tails you lose". In another classic Friday announcement before a long holiday weekend, Moody's announced that it has settled suits brought by federal and state governments...
by m2c4
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on Mon Jan 16, 2017 at 11:50 AM PST
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Donald Trump claims that he sold all his stocks earlier this summer but, of course, we have no independent way to confirm that since Trump refuses to release his taxes or even a summary of his ...
by m2c4
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on Tue Dec 20, 2016 at 10:28 AM PST
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NV-Sen: Cortez Masto (D) Releases New Spanish And English Ads Fighting The Big Banks On Foreclosures This was posted today on former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D. NV) U.S. Senate website:
Las Vegas, NV - Former Nevada Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto’s campaign launched a new...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 04:34 PM PDT
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Received this e-mail today Russ Feingold’s (D. WI) U.S. Senate campaign:
Friend,
Working and middle-class families in Wisconsin are worried about paying their bills.
I hear this every day as I listen to voters, especially this week as...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sat Apr 16, 2016 at 10:39 AM PDT
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I didn’t think I would be interested in this story. It wasn’t that long ago that all of this occurred and we lived through it. At the time it was sickening to hear about the wheeling and dealing of big banks, the subsequent bail-outs and the...
by jusducky
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on Fri Apr 01, 2016 at 03:23 PM PDT
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Making Someone’s Campaign Ideas Your Own. Hillary: always a progressive — except when she isn’t.
Below is the transcript of Hillary Clinton's remarks after defeating Bernie Sanders in the Nevada
by Winham
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on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 06:52 AM PST
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While Nevada did not go our way On Saturday afternoon, Bernie Sanders with our support, competed in a state that was deemed “out of reach” and “too diverse” to win. While we may have come up ...
by AlexcSinger
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on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:00 AM PST
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We had adopted 3 eventually 4 of our grandchildren and since retirement did not last long, and we needed a bigger home plus my Dad was developing Alzheimers, the house on Buckhorn was perfect. My hus
by Vetwife
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on Tue Feb 16, 2016 at 07:39 PM PST
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in addition to the Employment Situation Summary for January from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this week also saw the release of four December reports that input into our GDP, three of which could r
by rjsigmund
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on Sun Feb 07, 2016 at 06:45 PM PST
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Today, the House took up two bills aimed at weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The first bill was the Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act.
It would expand a narrow exe
by Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees
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on Wed Nov 18, 2015 at 06:44 PM PST
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