Headline News Archive

2009

February

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• Taking on a tenant to ease the burden. Alan Rickert didn't set out to be a landlord. When he bought a one-bedroom condominium in Shirlington in 2005, he was sure rising prices would guarantee

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• Offer to reassess home raises red flag. If you're a homeowner, you may have received an official-looking letter recently informing you that your property needs to be reassessed for tax purposes. The

• Mortgage relief via the courts. Congress is poised to give bankruptcy judges more power to modify primary home mortgages in an attempt to halt the foreclosure crisis, a move Democrats

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• Renegociar un préstamo puede salir caro. Ferdinand Bristol, dueño de una pequeña empresa de reparación de casas, perdió la mayor parte de su negocio durante la crisis inmobiliaria,

• AmEx pays customers to close accounts. American Express Co. is paying some cardholders $300 each to close accounts so the lender can reduce the risk of defaults as the recession deepens. People

• Economic state of the union. Fourteen months into a downturn that appears to be deepening, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress tonight to speak about the health

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• Why pay my neighbor’s mortgage?. Last week’s long-awaited foreclosure relief effort from the Obama administration touched a nerve among homeowners who didn’t get in over their heads in

• Money spread around to buy foreclosures. Tucked into the economic stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama this week was $2 billion to expand a nascent and controversial program to help cities

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• Extent of bankruptcy reform hinges on details. When President Obama touted reform of the bankruptcy code while unveiling his foreclosure prevention program earlier this week, it wasn't much of a surprise. He

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• Mortgage rescue eligibility still being finalized. A day after President Obama unveiled his $75 billion foreclosure prevention program, administration officials yesterday said they were still determining which homeowners should qualify. The administration

• Cómo te puede ayudar el estímulo. A menos de un mes de llegar a la presidencia, Barack Obama promulgó el martes el plan de estímulo económico, dotado con cerca

• Nuevo plan contra los 'foreclosures'. El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció en Phoenix (Arizona) su plan contra las ejecuciones hipotecarias (foreclosures), que estará dotado con al menos $75 mil

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• How foreclosure prevention plan would work. President Obama announced a massive foreclosure prevention program yesterday aimed at stabilizing the housing market and keeping millions of borrowers in their homes. Many of

• Obama package to stave off foreclosures. President Obama unveiled a foreclosure-prevention package Wednesday that would pour more than $75 billion into arresting one of the root causes of the nation's economic spiral

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• Mortgage plan to focus on lowering payments. When President Obama announces his $50 billion foreclosure prevention program in Arizona today, it will represent one of the most ambitious efforts yet to turn around

• The best personal finance podcasts. For the past few weeks, I’ve been on an active quest to find the best financial information that fits into my pocket and doesn’

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• Ahorra en la póliza de tu auto. La recesión económica ha hecho que muchas personas busquen alternativas para ahorrar dinero. Unos han cortado en la canasta familiar, otros

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• How safe is your financial data?. Seldom is so much private financial information packaged so neatly as when you apply for a mortgage. Yet a recent survey suggests that not all

• Filling in details on the stimulus bill. Many of us have heard about some of the tax breaks in the stimulus package, but the details have been skimpy. Readers have been e-mailing

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• Fannie and Freddie will charge mortgage fees. It may not be what home buyers, sellers and refinancers want to hear, but they need to know: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ratcheting

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• How banks are worsening the foreclosure crisis. The bad mortgages that got the current financial crisis started have produced a terrifying wave of home foreclosures. Unless the foreclosure surge eases, even the

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• Foreclosures down - for now. Foreclosures dropped in January, a possible sign that efforts to slow foreclosures through moratoriums and mortgage modifications are having some effect. Foreclosure filings — default notices,

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• Screwed by the fine print. Despite the new Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, corporations can still get away with employment discrimination and other harmful action through binding mandatory arbitration agreements in

• New bank bailout plan. Acknowledging that Americans have “lost faith” in the government’s effort thus far to rescue the banking system, the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, outlined

• Housing group protests at bankers' homes. A non-profit housing advocacy group said Monday it will protest at the homes of those it calls "financial predators" — investors and banking executives it says