Calculated Risk: First-time Home Buyer Frenzy

In addition $8000 to the Federal tax credit, there are some state programs, as a nexample from Newsday.com: NYS rolls out tax credit for first-time home buyers – but most of the frenzy is being driven by the Federal Tax credit. …

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German printing press maker Heidelberg Druckmaschinen 1st quarter …

German printing press maker Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG said Tuesday its net loss for its fiscal first quarter widened 77 percent as the economic crisis curbed demand from publishers.

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Wholesale mortgage lender halts origination operations – Kansas …

One of the nation’s largest wholesale mortgage lenders stopped funding mortgages Wednesday, a day after federal authorities barred it from making loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration.

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Arkansas Watch: Centerpiece of Obama's Education Plan …

“On July 24, 2009, the U.S Department of Education (DOE) announced that the “centerpiece of the Obama administration’s education reform efforts” in its “$4.35 billion Race to the Top,” will include “adopting internationally benchmarked …

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Safe Haven | The Home Construction Depression and Its Aftermath

A financial information site with an emphasis on Gold and Preservation of Capital. — A key question going forward for the economy and GDP: When will we recover from the home construction depression and at what rate?

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The Health Care Blog: Op-Ed: Health in All Policies

At the heart of current health care reform discussions – which focus on expanding access to care and establishing mechanisms to finance broader coverage as well as reduce rapidly escalating costs – must be the promotion of good health …

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Geithner's Troubles at Home – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com

The Daily Show pokes fun of the Treasury secretary’s difficulty in selling a “toxic asset” — his Larchmont, NY, home .

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Newt's six-point health-care reform

Barack Obama likes to accuse his critics on health -care reform of proposing nothing in opposition to ObamaCare. Newt Gingrich and Nancy Desmond run the Center for Health Transformation and have their own response, a six-point plan to …

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