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Economy Oct 27

U.S. mortgage rates hit 20-year high, top 7 percent after Fed hikes

By Matt Ott, Alex Veiga, Associated Press

Economy Apr 30

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What to do if you can’t afford to pay your mortgage right now

With more than 30 million Americans losing jobs or businesses and others forced to take pay cuts, making monthly rent and mortgage payments has become increasingly difficult. Viewers share their challenges, and John Yang talks to the National Consumer Law…

Economy Mar 29

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How the outbreak’s economic disruption is impacting renters

There are 44 million households that are renting in the U.S., but even before the massive economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic many were already stretching their budgets to afford housing. But what will happen to them now? Hari…

By Sam Weber

Making Sen$e Sep 18

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference following a closed two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, U.S., September 18, 2019. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Reuters
How the Federal Reserve rate cut could affect your finances

The Fed’s reduction of the federal funds rate is only one of many factors that affect the U.S. economy, but it can still trigger shifts that trickle down into Americans’ finances.

By Gretchen Frazee

Making Sen$e Mar 05

A house under foreclosure that is now bank owned in the Spring Valley area in Las Vegas on October 15, 2010. Foreclosures have evolved into a vast industry since the start of the economic crunch as Americans faced massive debts, with the number of mortgage defaults soaring from an annual average of one percent before 2008 to 10 percent today. In 2010, more than three million foreclosures were expected to take place in the United States, figures show, and documentation problems might exist in 80 percent of them. Las Vegas home prices continue to fall as the city continues to be among the worst performers in the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price report which covers the 20 biggest U.S. property markets. In the past year Las Vegas property prices fell 12 percent against the 20-city market average of a of 2.3 percent increase. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Opinion: How this Senate banking bill could open the front door to housing discrimination

Now is not the time for Congress to make it harder for state attorneys general to fill the void in consumer protection and civil rights enforcement that President Trump is creating.

By Catherine Cortez Masto, Vanita Gupta

Feb 15

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Struggle for black and Latino mortgage applicants suggests modern-day redlining

Ten years since the economic recession, lending has returned for many Americans. Yet the gap between white and black homeownership is wider now than it was in 1960, with signs of modern-day redlining showing up across the country. Special correspondent…

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Mar 29

Is paying a ‘mortgage’ the answer to expensive prescriptions?

By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News

An MIT economist and Harvard oncologist think that health care installment loans could help get highly effective but prohibitively expensive drugs into consumers’ hands.

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Sep 24

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For some underwater mortgages, a chance to buy again at market rate

By PBS NewsHour

We may have heard that the housing crisis is over, but that’s not the case for many homeowners in lower-income neighborhoods across the country. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how a Boston nonprofit lender is working to stop foreclosures…

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Jul 31

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Mortgage servicers go to extreme lengths to skirt new regulations

By Jeff Horwitz, Associated Press

They are selling or have sold nearly nonexistent insurance agencies — in some cases with no offices, no websites and only a single registered agent — in multi-million dollar deals, as new rules prohibit them from collecting commissions on insurance…

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Nov 19

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Will JPMorgan’s record settlement set incentive for better bank behavior?

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