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...down to 5.79%, from an average of 6.55% the week before, according to Bankrate.com As part of the takeover, Treasury announced that it will begin buying mortgage-backed securities--starting with about $5 billion in purchases in the next month. By making more money available for mortgages, this should push rates down even more...
Detroit's struggling and battered automakers are mounting an ambitious push this week for up to $50 million worth of federal loans, which are much less expensive than private credit. They are eager to have necessary legislation in place by the time Congress adjourns before the election. As recently as last winter, loan guarantees for carmakers had seemed like a piece of the Motor City's past (President Carter signed off on the Chrysler loan guarantees in 1980). But a combination of the economic slowdown and Presidential campaign politics, as well as the precedent of the federal bailout of Wall...
...Maddow's chipper intimacy, her skill at marshaling arguments without bullying the listener, her gift for sounding more or less middling to either side. Unlike many hosts on the radio and TV left and right, Maddow majors in common sense and shies away from conspiracy theories - though she did push the notion that Jeb Bush would be this year's GOP presidential candidate and, more plausibly, that if the Democrats couldn't agree on a candidate by mid-spring they'd be assuring four more years of a Republican in the White House...
Germany's venerable Social Democratic Party (SPD) has become one of the oldest political parties in Europe through a long history of often fruitful internecine battles. But the leadership putsch it underwent on Sunday seemed evidence of weakness rather than a push towards new vitality...
...push to help re-arm Iraq - helicopter gunships are already in the pipeline, and Baghdad is looking to buy 400 armored personnel carriers and six C-130 cargo planes - suggests an Iraqi government eager to fight its own battles without U.S. help. "Given Iraq's history and its location, it's going to create regular forces that are capable of not simply dealing with an insurgency but defending the country," says Anthony Cordesman, a military scholar with the Center for Strategic and Independent Studies. "And when a country is looking for prestige - a symbol of coming back as a fully...