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Detroit Needs Housing Rebound To Spur Pickup Sales

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Housing, Truck Sales, Chevy, Chevrolet, Gm, Cars, Ford, Trucks, Home Sales, Automakers, New Homes, Cash for Clunkers, Detroit, Housing Boom, Construction, Pickup Trucks, Business News

DETROIT — At Kevin Haner's construction company in Las Vegas, three of the four Dodge Ram pickup trucks are starting to get a little old. He may...

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STUDY: Bush Administration Added To Crisis By Preempting State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws

Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Anti-Predatory Lending Laws, Mortgages, Bush Administration, Keiko Tsuyama, Predatory Lending, Housing Boom, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

A new report suggests that the the Bush administration's hard push to preempt state anti-predatory lending laws may have added fuel to the fire of the...

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As U.S. Government Props Up Housing, Taxpayers Are On The Hook For Billions

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Housing Boom, Fha, Freddie Mack, Fannie Mae, Subprime, Home Loans, Business News

In the go-go years of the U.S. housing boom, virtually anybody could get a few hundred thousand dollars to buy a home, and private lenders flooded the...

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Beware the Drywall

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Eco-Friendly, Housing Boom, Chinese Drywall, Drywall, Construction, Eco-Friendly-Drywall, Home Construction, Eco-Friendly Advice, Green Tips, Eco-Friendly Construction, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

Believe it or not, a limited number of homes, mostly built between 2004 and 2006, seem to have walls that give off poisonous fumes.

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Great Reporting of a Sad Story

Jim Randel | Posted 01.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Housing Market, Housing Slump, Economy, Housing Crisis, WaMu Collapse, Washington Mutual, Housing Boom, New York Times, Wamu, Business News
Jim Randel

If any citizen of this country presents a false loan application to a bank and then gets approved and the bank loses money, that applicant may well be prosecuted for bank fraud.

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More Bailouts For Over-Indebted Homeowners Coming?

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS, LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Housing Boom, Adjustible-Rate Mortgages, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgages, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Housing Crisis, Moody's, Business News

Prodded in part by some of the nation's biggest banks, the Bush administration and Congress are considering costly new proposals for the government to...

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Next Bubble To Deflate? Greenspan's Star Reputation

Bloomberg | Rich Miller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Edward Chancellor, Housing Boom, Bubble Reputation, Recession Fears, Federal Reserve, New York Times, Recession, Greenspan's Reputation, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Wall Street Journal, Business News

The next bubble to deflate may be Alan Greenspan's reputation. Hailed as perhaps the greatest central banker who ever lived when he left the Federal ...

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