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HUD aids in help for families facing foreclosure

05:49 PM CST on Monday, December 1, 2008 By GARY REAVES / WFAA-TV LINK: HUD approved housing counseling agencies North Texas Housing Coalition: 214-946-3500 Along with a struggling economy comes foreclosures, and there have...

AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It...

Market Street woes mirror a nation's

In part of Wilmington touched by all sectors, the only ones thriving are bankruptcy lawyers By MAUREEN MILFORD • The News Journal • December 1, 2008 WILMINGTON -- "By walking up and down the street, you can see the signs of the...

S&Ls' Not-So-Wonderful Life (Investor's Business Daily)

Think of good-hearted savings banker Jimmy Stewart in the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life." Unlike regional and national commercial banks, local companies usually own and manage S&Ls. At the end of the third quarter, the...

Back to the Barricades (Free markets are under attack again.)

Back to the Barricades Free markets are under attack again. Matt Welch | December 2008 September 24, 2008, should go down in the history books as a day of infamy. And clarity. That's when President George W. Bush looked into...

Apple Cup 101

The 2008 Apple Cup had less hype than my second-grade spelling bee.For this Apple Cup, all hypothetical barking, woofing, scratching and clawing would be replaced with puppy whines and kitty meows. Nonetheless, the satisfaction...

AOL Reveals Top Web, Mobile and Video Searches of 2008 (Business Wire)

Monday December 1, 12:30 am ET NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL’s annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for...

Leadership Malpractice

In the first nine months of 2008, 1,132 CEOs quit or were shown the door. Even those who performed miserably didn't suffer consequences; most left with their financial futures secured When a health care provider or an attorney...

Forecast For Ads Online Dips 10%

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press Published: December 1, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - A marketing research firm is dimming its Internet advertising outlook for the next four years, the latest sign of the more austere times...

Legerdemain and Order

News Type: Opinion — Mon Dec 1, 2008 12:15 AM EST For centuries the chrysanthemum has been one of the representative flowering plants of Japanese arts and literature. When we pay for law enforcement and protection, should we...