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...effort to stem foreclosures and the depressed house prices they perpetuate entered a new phase on Tuesday as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a fast-track program meant to make hundreds of thousands of mortgages affordable to people who can't currently meet their monthly payments. The roll-out follows on the heels of new loan modification programs at JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, but the move at Fannie and Freddie, which together hold or guarantee some 58% of single-family home loans, has the potential to reach much farther since the mortgage industry often takes its cue from...
...some ways, Ireland has been a victim of its own success. Rising incomes and government policy failures pumped up a housing bubble that is now deflating fast, hurting Ireland's outsized construction sector. Factor in soaring unemployment, weaker consumer spending and the gummed-up credit markets, and Ireland is facing "the most challenging fiscal and economic position in a generation," Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told parliament on Oct. 14. "We must all pull together if we are to return to more prosperous times...
Circuit City became complacent - a fatal mistake in the fiercely competitive and fast-evolving retail-electronics industry. The problems began a decade ago, when Circuit City failed to secure prime real estate - its out-of-the-way locations were often just inconvenient enough to tempt customers to head to other retailers, like Wal-Mart. Then Circuit City stopped selling appliances. It didn't move as aggressively into gaming as it should have. And it missed out on big in-store promotions with thriving companies like Apple Computer. That created an opening for Best Buy, now the top electronics chain...
...that we are not such a divided people as we have been told we are for the past eight years. This makes Obama’s victory as a black man special, not just for black Americans, but for all Americans who value equality and hold fast to the idea that we are a better nation than the past has shown...
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