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</html><description>Tom McNamara, Blueprint America The national credit crisis is hitting the housing market again, this time resulting in bankruptcy &#x2013; for builders. The New York Times reports that across the county, small home builders are going into bankruptcy as the banks providing their construction loans foreclose on their developments. Home sales are down nationwide, and [&hellip;]</description></oembed>

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