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...what is getting to be something of a habit, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson ruined his own and a lot of other people's weekend by choosing the morning of Sunday, Sept. 7, to announce the seizure of money-losing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...Assembly, a gated compound in far western New York State, as "the most famous and aristocratic spiritualistic camp in America." Freethinking, forward-leaning, this was a place for prophets of all kinds. Susan B. Anthony visited half a dozen times; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt came, and Harry Houdini and Mae West, and seekers from around the world looking to explore the continuity between life and what locals refer to as "so-called death...
...York Bailouts: Bad For Business Rather than reassuring stock markets, a government offer to assist U.S. mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae has spooked investors, who fear that a big government loan or purchase of corporate debt could devalue their own shares. Stock prices for both companies fell sharply in August, while Freddie was forced to sell $3 billion in debt at its highest borrowing costs in a decade...
...nation's biggest student loan company, Sallie Mae, and polling firm Gallup just released the results of a survey, conducted in May, of 1,400 undergraduates and their parents about how they plan to pay for college this year. One in five parents borrowing money reported either taking out a second mortgage of more than $10,000 or charging some portion of college expenses to a credit card. In a study released earlier this summer, consumer advocate U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) found roughly a quarter of students reported billing their tuition to a credit card. Such borrowing practices...
...little as $10,000, even for out-of-state enrollees, according to the College Board, the nonprofit that administers the SAT. "We eliminate homes and cars all the time due to price, but then don't go through the same exercise for college," says Tom Joyce, a Sallie Mae spokesman. "That's got to change...