Home building goes green
Norm Schreifels is building a 5,500-square-foot dream home with unimpeded views of the Sandia Mountains, an outdoor dining room that faces the city lights and a handful of plazas and portals that take advantage …
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Mortgage Security Bondholders Facing a Cutoff of Interest Payments (New York Times) The cutoff of interest payments, which is expected to accelerate, would be the latest blow to the markets as investors try to anticipate the next problem that might shake confidence.read
Mass. joins Internet system for tracking mortgage brokers (Boston Globe) Massachusetts is one of seven states taking part in a new Internet-based system to better supervise mortgage brokers.read more...
Fed's Yellen: U.S. economy contracting significantly Trends in the U.S. economy are "deeply worrisome" at a time when damage from the credit crunch has outpaced the Federal Reserve's huge interest rate cuts, a top Fed policy-maker
Banks mulling mortgage rates MAJOR banks are set to increase interest rates on loans and savings products following the central bank's official rate rise today.Commentread more...
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Book offers inspiration for holidays Pondering Judaism's annual high holidays, Rabbi James Diamond of Princeton University says they could be called the "hi" holidays because "Jews who haven't seen each other all year gather in