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Housing bill heads to Senate; Bush withdraws veto threat
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday to ease the country's most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing aid to homeowners facing foreclosure and a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....Tags: Barack Obama, Los Angeles, National Government, Santa Clarita (Los Angeles, California), Maxine Waters
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House OKs rescue plan
Chicago Tribune NewspapersThe House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday to ease the most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing aid to homeowners facing foreclosure and a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In a...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, National Government, Nevada, Texas
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House approves bill that aims to help strapped homeowners facing foreclosure
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) _ Rescue legislation sailed through the House Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and to prevent troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing. The 272-152 vote reflected a...Tags: Republican Party, National Government, Homes, Government, Freddie Mac
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Dionne: Old economic assumptions are toppling
E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a syndicated columnist based at the Washington PostThe biggest political story of 2008 is the collapse of assumptions that have dominated our economic debate for three decades. Since the Reagan years, free market cliches have passed for sophisticated economic analysis. But in the current crisis these...Tags: Barack Obama, Washington Post Company, International Relations, Financial and Business Services, Financial Markets
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Taxpayers On The Hook For Billions?
Associated PressNow that the federal government has thrown a lifeline to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers could be on the hook for billions more if the crisis of confidence spreads. There were encouraging signs Monday for the rescue plan, but also...Tags: National Government, Business Institutions, Government, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae
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Mortgage giants aided
Of The Associated PressScrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced unprecedented steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The companies' shares, which have plunged as losses from...Tags: Ben Bernanke, National Government, CBS Corp., Homes, Government
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Will lifeline help or hurt economy?
Now that the federal government has thrown a lifeline to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers could be on the hook for billions more if the crisis of confidence spreads.
There were encouraging signs Monday for the rescue plan, but also...Tags: National Government, Government, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, New York
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Bernanke strikes note of confidence
Associated PressWhen Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver II asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke yesterday when the nation's financial woes would end, he was expressing the yearning of many on Main Street and Wall Street that the yearlong pain would soon be over....Tags: Ben Bernanke, Spencer Bachus, Financial Services, National Government, Government
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Freddie, Fannie rescue urged
New York Times News ServiceAlarmed by the sharply eroding confidence in the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, the Bush administration on Sunday asked Congress to approve a sweeping rescue package. The deal would give officials the power to inject billions of federal...Tags: National Government, Business Institutions, Government, New York Times, Mutual Funds
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US spells out Fannie-Freddie backstop plan
The Associated PressScrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced unprecedented steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The companies' shares, which have plunged as losses from...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, National Government, Chris Johnson, Freddie Mac
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