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Mortgage settlement: A good deal for Maryland
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is right to sign on to the multi-state settlement with the nation's five largest banks over some aspects of the faulty procedures they used to foreclose on homes during the mortgage crisis. The state stands...Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Fannie Mae, Douglas F. Gansler, Bank of America Corp.
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Mortgage settlement has shortcomings, critics say
As the federal government and 49 states signed a landmark mortgage relief settlement Thursday, housing advocates and others pointed to shortcomings and raised questions about how the $25 billion plan would be able to provide relief to nearly 2 million...Tags: Real Estate, Lawyers, Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Affairs, Federal Bailout Funds
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Fannie and Freddie, not banks, deserve blame
In its editorials and Dan Rodricks columns, The Sun continues to emphasize and underscore the big lie that banks or "predatory lenders" were the cause of the housing crash ("What took so long?" Jan. 26). "Predatory lending" is a term of relatively...Tags: Fannie Mae, Barney Frank
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CNN, John King, ABC, Brian Ross have nothing to apologize for with Gingrich
The Baltimore SunIn November, I advanced one of CNN's debates with a piece hoping aloud that Wolf Blitzer would not let Newt Gingrich bully him as the the former Speaker of the House had been doing to other debate moderators. Here's a bit of what I wrote: And so it...Tags: Nightline (tv program), News Agency, Roger Ailes , Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich
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What do Christian conservatives see in Newt Gingrich?
It amazes me that right-wing Christian Republicans would vote for Newt Gingrich. We just had Herman Cain remove himself from the 2012 presidential campaign for simply being accused of adultery. Gingrich admitted to committing adultery, more than once, yet...Tags: Republican Party, Cancer, Newt Gingrich, Elections, Adultery
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Who will win Iowa, the most conservative or the most electable?
Now that the seven Republican presidential hopefuls have had their last televised debate before the Jan. 3 Iowa precinct caucuses, they have barely two weeks of on-the-ground campaigning to answer the two key questions facing the voters.
The big one...Tags: Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Michele M. Bachmann, Rick Perry
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Prince George's schools receive $250,000 for 'principal pipeline'
Prince George's County Public Schools has been awarded a one-year $250,000 grant from the Freddie Mac Foundation. This capacity-building grant will be used to enhance funding for the "principal pipeline" initiative that began this school year through a... -
CNN debate tonight: Here's hoping Wolf Blitzer won't let Newt Gingrich bully him
The Baltimore SunBased on the number of televised GOP candidate debates in 2008, we are just about halfway through the process with tonight's CNN-hosted debate on foreign policy. I am encouraged by the big audiences of up to 6 million tuning in for some of the debates....Tags: Newt Gingrich, Television Industry, University of West Georgia , Jim Cramer, Charlie Rose
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GOP primary: Republicans need to stop playing on the left's terms
Now it's Newt's turn. Having risen to the top in some opinion polls, the former speaker of the House is taking heat for large consulting fees paid to him by the government-sponsored mortgage company Freddie Mac for wisdom a New York Times editorial said...Tags: Mitt Romney, The New York Times, Newt Gingrich, Solyndra LLC, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Fannie and Freddie don't need Wall Street pay to run
Who says Democrats and Republicans can't agree on budget cuts? The supercommittee charged with reducing the deficit by more than $1 trillion by Wednesday seems to have failed. But both parties apparently agree that the chopping should start with tens...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Corporate Officers, Fannie Mae, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton
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Newt Gingrich and the GOP's leadership bankruptcy
It's a measure of the leadership bankruptcy in the Republican Party that Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker chased from that illustrious post years ago by a combination of ethical lapses and personal hubris, should find himself politically...Tags: White House, Bankruptcy, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Joe Biden
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Home prices fell 6% in Baltimore area in October
Nerve-wracking economic conditions and more stringent mortgage requirements helped push home sales in the Baltimore region to their lowest level for the month of October in at least 13 years, putting more downward pressure on prices. The average sale...Tags: Real Estate, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Administration, Annapolis, Homes
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