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Freedom Weekend: Empowerment is key - Detroit News
DETROIT -- Organizers turned an eye toward next year's programming as Freedom Weekend seminars neared an end Saturday. Maryann Lee, Freedom Institute executive director, said she wants to increase internship opportunities for young people. That will ...
2008-04-26 02:39:00 -
Maffei returns donors' $16,000 - Syracuse Post-Standard
Democratic congressional candidate Dan Maffei will return about $16,000 in contributions from workers at an East Syracuse company that has been accused of preying on senior citizens. Maffei's campaign said it will refund the money to four employees ...
2008-04-27 01:59:00 -
Bill targets scammers who victimize the elderly - Los Angeles Times
Every year, Karen Liebig attempts to steer thousands of seniors away from investment fraud. And, yet, every year the numbers get a bit more grim. Fraud against seniors rose roughly 40% last year, according to the North American Securities ...
2008-04-26 11:50:00 -
Wall Street, Run Amok - New York Times
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone. Just leave well enough alone... . — Don Henley , “Dirty Laundry” YOU may well be asking yourself, as I have asked myself, how on earth did the credit crisis on Wall Street become such a ...
2008-04-27 04:36:00 -
HOME CALENDAR - Detroit Free Press
Real Estate Investors Association of Oakland: Mold-in-homes briefing presented by home inspector Matt Bezanson. 5:30-9 p.m. May 8 at the MSU Management Education Center, 811 W. Square Lake Road, Troy. Free for members; $20 for nonmembers. Call 800 ...
2008-04-27 12:19:00 -
The mortgage bust in microcosm: The saga of a failed mortgage package - International Herald Tribune
In 1996, Thomas Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, remarked that there were two superpowers in the world - "the United States and Moody's Bond Rating Service" - and it was sometimes unclear which was more powerful. Moody's, then, was a ...
2008-04-25 07:52:00 -
Analyst cuts rating on Ambac Financial on mortgage worries - CNN Money
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - An analyst cut his rating on bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc. Friday after the company said it lost $1.66 billion during the first quarter amid rising mortgage-related losses. Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Grasher ...
2008-04-25 11:34:00 -
Just the ticket for brokers - Boston Globe
The 2007 Red Sox season was just underway when a group of professional ticket brokers held an unusual meeting in a private room at the Baseball Tavern, the storied bar in the shadows of Fenway Park. The main item on their agenda: How to persuade ...
2008-04-27 04:22:00 -
Mortgage rates are much higher in UAE - Zawya.com
Despite the continual fall in the interest rate resulting in a 0.187 per cent interest for a one-month dirham deposit, the mortgage lending margins in the UAE still remain very high, according to data available with The Business Weekly. The dirham ...
2008-04-27 01:09:00 -
End of usury laws was start of high-priced loans - Poughkeepsie Journal
In 1980, Congress killed the usury laws. The measure was called the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, and one of its many provisions was to outlaw any state's law that put a ceiling on home mortgage loan interest rates ...
2008-04-26 11:57:00 -
Leads Mortgage Info - Colleyville Courier
Get Info on Leads Mortgage from 14 search engines in 1. $150,000 Loan for $391/month - Refinance, Home Equity and Purchase. Historic Low Rates From Top Lenders - No Obligation, No SSN Required & Bad Credit OK. Wakefly Inc, is a preferred reseller and ...
2008-04-26 11:50:00 -
Builder flees & 40 Hasidic families face eviction in Brooklyn swindle - New York Daily News
'Where can we go?' asks Jakov Osdoba. He and wife, Miriam - along with their seven kids - are facing eviction from 770 Lefferts Ave. (below) Theodorakis/News More than 40 Brooklyn families face eviction and foreclosure on condos they bought from a ...
2008-04-26 11:21:00 -
Builder flees & 40 Hasidic families face eviction in Brooklyn swindle - New York Daily News
'Where can we go?' asks Jakov Osdoba. He and wife, Miriam - along with their seven kids - are facing eviction from 770 Lefferts Ave. (below) Theodorakis/News More than 40 Brooklyn families face eviction and foreclosure on condos they bought from a ...
2008-04-26 11:21:00 -
UPDATE 1-Jordan's Arab Bank Q1 net profit up 24 percent - Reuters
AMMAN, April 27 (Reuters) - Jordan-based Arab Bank Group's net profit rose 24.4 percent to $232.8 million in the first quarter, the bank said on Sunday, as it diversified its operations and expanded its regional presence. Chairman and CEO Abdel Hamid ...
2008-04-27 03:54:00 -
UPDATE 1-Jordan's Arab Bank Q1 net profit up 24 percent - Reuters
AMMAN, April 27 (Reuters) - Jordan-based Arab Bank Group's net profit rose 24.4 percent to $232.8 million in the first quarter, the bank said on Sunday, as it diversified its operations and expanded its regional presence. Chairman and CEO Abdel Hamid ...
2008-04-27 03:54:00