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...When earlier this year Harper unveiled his 2009 budget, he agreed to purchase an additional $50 billion in government-insured mortgages from Canada's major banks, bringing the total since the program was announced late last year to C$125 billion. Indeed the country's minority Conservative government has staked its political fortunes on the so-called Extraordinary Financing Framework (EFF), intended to counter the credit crunch by providing up to C$200 billion in credit for consumers and businesses. (Read "Canada Faces Recession - and a Political Crisis...
...pants needed to get servicers to more aggressively rewrite loans. At a mortgage bankers' conference in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, servicers praised the incentive structure, and Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, went on CNBC to say he thought the plan would "lead to a lot more modifications." An earlier effort to spark loan rewrites proved to be a flop, but the Administration thinks this new program could reach 3 million to 4 million homeowners. The plan also includes an endorsement of the idea that Congress might change the bankruptcy code to let judges write down mortgage debt...
Stocks sent an unsettling message today, with the Dow Jones Industrials closing below the market low set back in November 2008. The Dow had dipped below the November low earlier in the week but finished the day higher. Thursday's close below the November low is to some a confirmation of the market's bearish trend, implying lower prices ahead. The Dow index, which finished the day at 7465.79, is down 10% over the last eight trading days, and is also at a new five-year low. (See the top 10 Dow Jones drops of all time...
...Senate Ethics Committee and a local Illinois prosecutor have launched investigations into Senator Roland Burris' inconsistent descriptions of his contact with Rod Blagojevich before being tapped by the then governor to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat. Burris recently admitted attempting to raise money for Blagojevich months earlier--a fact he neglected to mention while testifying in Blago's January impeachment hearing. Though Burris has denied any wrongdoing, lawmakers of both parties have called for his resignation...
...years at medical school, Dr. Willem Kolff, who died Feb. 11 at 97, hired me to work on the artificial-heart project at the University of Utah. On my first day, he instructed me to create a new heart design that would keep an animal alive longer than any earlier models...