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Dodd- Put CFPA Inside Federal Reserve (3/2/10)

Mortgage task force to probe foreclosures, fraud (3/1/10)

Dodd, Corker near key reform deal (3/1/10)

Liening on NY homeowners (2/28/10)

Dodd Consumer Proposal Would Create Bureau of Financial Protection (2/27/10)

Consumer Financial Protection: Is the Debate on the Right Track? (2/16/10, posted 3/2/10)

97,000 Homeowners in "Loan Mod Limbo" (2/24/10)

Freddie Mac- "Potential Large Wave of Foreclosures" (2/24/10)

White House in New Push for Changes on Wall St. (2/23/10)

Q4 Report: 11.3 Million U.S. Properties with Negative Equity (2/23/10)

Banks Apply Pressure to Keep Fees Rolling In (2/22/10)

Judge Accepts S.E.C.’s Deal With Bank of America (2/22/10)

Frank Statement on the Credit CARD Act (2/22/10)

Modest Won’t Do It (2/20/10)

Obama's $1.5 billion financing plan would help struggling homeowners in 5 states (2/20/10)

Consumer Protections Hung Up in Senate (2/18/10)

Agreement Is Near on New Overseer of Banking Risks (2/17/10)

Administration Releases January Loan Modification Report (2/17/10) Full report

CREDIT CARD PROTECTIONS TAKE EFFECT MONDAY BUT LOOPHOLES AND ABUSES PERSIST (2/17/10)

New Law Protects Credit Cardholders (2/16/10)

U.S. Housing Aid Winds Down, and Cities Worry (2/14/10)

Commercial Real Estate Losses and the Risk to Financial Stability (2/11/10)

On Finance Reform Talks, Dodd Trades Shelby for Corker (2/11/10)

New federal agency needed to protect consumers' financial interests (2/11/10)

From Foreclosure to Re-Redlining: How America’s largest financial institutions devastated California communities (February 2010, posted 2/11/10)

Wall St.’s Biggest Bonuses Go to Not-So-Big Names (2/10/10)

Slumburbia (2/10/10)

Wall Street's Race to the Bottom (2/8/10)

Treasury Chief Geithner Says Bank Fee Can Recoup AIG Bonuses (2/4/10, posted 2/11/10)

Florida's United Insurance to Expand Into 7 Northeast, Southeast States (2/2/10, posted 2/11/10)

State Farm Begins Sending Non-Renewal Notices in Florida This Week (2/1/10, posted 2/11/10)

No Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away (2/2/10, posted 2/5/10)

New York AG filing civil charges against BofA (2/4/10)

Financial Services Committee to Consider the Future of Housing Finance (2/4/10)

Nassau Bar Association’s Mortgage Foreclosure Clinics Receive NYS Award (2/3/10)

New NY Fed U.S. Credit Conditions Data (2/2/10)

Five myths about America's credit card debt (1/31/10)

Senate, Weakly, Backs New Term for Bernanke (1/28/10)

Brian Moynihan Salary 2010: Bank Of America CEO To Make $950,000 (1/28/10)

Obama bank plan ‘could be law within months’(1/27/10)

Ailing Banks Favor Salaries Over Shareholders (1/26/10)

The Quarrel Over Bernanke (1/26/10)

Elizabeth Warren: Pass A Consumer Protection Agency Or Forget Regulatory Reform (1/22/10, posted 1/29/10) See Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show (1/26/10)

HUD Funds $26.3m for Fair Housing Programs, Investigations (1/22/10)

Obama’s Move to Limit ‘Reckless Risks’ Has Skeptics (1/21/10)

With Populist Stance, Obama Takes On Banks (1/21/10)

New Aggregation Service Tracks Loan-Level RMBS Data (1/21/10)

US House Prices Gain Back 6.3% Since Trough: S&P/Case-Shiller (1/21/10)

Obama to Propose Limits on Risks Taken by Banks (1/20/10)

Housing Discrimination Bill Looks to Congress for Funding (1/20/10)

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, After Brown (1/20/10)

Obama Pressing for Protections Against Lenders (1/19/10)

Pandit Is Running Out of Time to Clean Up Citigroup (1/19/10)

DBRS: Prime Mortgage Performance Deteriorating at Alarming Rate (1/19/10)

Will The Banks Win Again? Bailout Watchdog Rallies Support For Consumer Protection Agency (1/19/10)

Height-of-Boom Subprime Performance Keeps Getting Worse: Moody’s (1/14/10, posted 1/22/10)

Citigroup loses $7.8B in 4Q (1/19/10)

Treasury Delay on Bank Home-Equity Debt Imperils Housing Pickup (1/19/10)

Out of the Woods (1/18/10)

Problems Mount at a Bronx Building Bought in a Bubble (1/18/10)

What’s Next for the CRA? Debate Rages Over Carter-Era Measure to Promote Low-Income and Minority Homeownership (1/18/10)

What Didn’t Happen (1/17/10)

Tenants suffer as more landlords default (1/17/10)

HAMP Can’t Keep Pace With Foreclosures; Stronger Action Needed Now (1/15/10)

JPMorgan Chase profit soars on market rally (1/15/10)

New Department of Justice Unit Investigating Reverse Redlining Allegations (1/15/10)

Bankers Without a Clue (1/14/10)

Mortgage fraud was rampant, US inquiry is told (1/14/10)

Height-of-Boom Subprime Performance Keeps Getting Worse: Moody’s (1/14/10)

BofA Permanent HAMP Modifications Jump from 98 to 3,200 in December (1/14/10)

Why Obama Must Take On Wall Street (1/13/10)

HUD Subpoenas 15 Mortgage Companies Over High FHA Insurance Claims (1/12/10)

U.S. Housing Outlook 2010: A Year of Recuperation (1/11/10, posted 1/15/10)

The Option ARM Hitch (1/08/10, posted 1/15/10)

Bailout Watchdog: Shutting Down TARP To Be Tricky, Government Does Not Have Plan To Address 'Too Big To Fail' (1/14/10)

Report: Exiting TARP and Unwinding Its Impact on the Financial Markets (1/14/10)

Obama Bank Fee to Hit 50 Biggest U.S. Financial Firms (1/14/10)

Foreclosures in 2009: The Hardest-Hit States (1/14/10) RealtyTrac numbers

U.S. Foreclosures May Rise to 3 Million This Year (1/14/10)

Justice Dept. Fights Bias in Lending (1/13/10)

Voices That Dominate Wall Street Take a Meeker Tone on Capitol Hill (1/13/10)

Cuomo Scrutinizes Bailed-Out Banks' 2009 Bonuses (1/11/10)

The Housing Bubble Has Popped, but if We Don't Pop the Denial Bubble Another Financial Crisis Awaits (1/8/10, posted 1/14/10)

Affordable housing ruling a setback to cities (1/8/10)

Bubbles and the Banks (1/7/10)

The Three Magi of the Meltdown (1/7/10)

Walk Away From Your Mortgage! (1/7/10)

Delinquency Grows in Home Equity Loans, Lines of Credit: ABA (1/7/10)

Maryland Court Dismisses ‘Reverse Redlining’ Lawsuit Against Wells Fargo (1/7/10)

Some at Fed See a Need to Do More for Housing (1/6/10)

Optimism Is Fresh Arrival in California Cul-de-Sac (1/6/10)

Fed Missed This Bubble. Will It See a New One? (1/5/10)

Prime Jumbo RMBS Delinquencies Climb in November: S&P (1/5/10)

Cuomo: H&R Block to refund customers more than $11M (1/4/10, posted 1/8/10)

Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Mortgage Foreclosures (2008, posted 1/8/10)

This Year’s Housing Crisis (1/4/10)

How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market (1/4/10)

Reporter's Secrets To Smart Consumption 2.0 (1/4/10)

Real Estate in Cape Coral Is Far From a Recovery (1/2/10)

U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes (1/1/10)

State Housing Commissioner Going Private (12/30/09, posted 1/5/10)

Billions to Fight Foreclosure, but Few New Loans (12/29/09, posted 1/5/10)

Report: Deregulation Made Massachusetts Auto Insurance Market Worse (12/28/09, posted 1/5/10) Download report.

Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis (12/7/09, posted 1/5/10)

Outrage: Credit Report Disputes Hamper Mortgage Loan Approvals (11/25/09, posted 1/5/10)

Amherst Mortgage Insight Negative Equity Trumps Unemployment in Predicting Defaults (11/23/09, posted 1/5/10)

Investors Reshape IndyMac (12/28/09)

Federal Reserve's Asset Size Exemption for Depository Institutions for Reg C and HMDA (12/22/09)

Home mortgage foreclosures rise in third quarter (12/21/09) OCC/OTS report

Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning earns national EPA award (12/19/09)

More homes are poised to hit the market (12/18/09)

Congress Weighs Restoring Wall Between Banking, Insurance (12/17/09, posted 12/22/09)

State Farm to Stay in Florida, Cancel 15% of Policies, Raise Rates 15% (12/16/09, posted 12/22/09)

House Passes Financial Services Reform Bill (12/11/09, posted 12/22/09)

Few troubled mortgages being modified permanently (12/11/09, posted 12/22/09) Making Home Affordable report

Citigroup to suspend foreclosures for 30 days (12/17/09)

Government Reconsiders Quick Sale of Citigroup Stake (12/16/09)

Bank Picks a Successor to Lewis (12/16/09)

America needs consumer financial agency (12/16/09)

Bernanke Foes Seek to Curtail Fed (12/16/09)

Senators Urge Reinstatement of Bank Separation (12/16/09)

Bank CEOs Pledge to Push for Re-Regulation (12/15/09)

GOVERNOR PATERSON SIGNS COMPREHENSIVE FORECLOSURE LEGISLATION INTO LAW (12/15/09)

Even Bigger Than Too Big to Fail (12/14/09)

Obama Presses Biggest Banks to Lend More (12/14/09)

List of HAMP Servicers Grows to 88 (12/14/09)

VIEWPOINT: Reality TV: Finally a Real Mortgage Analyst Testifies Before Congress (12/14/09)

Lead coalition receives EPA award (12/14/09)

House Advances Financial Reform, Consumer Financial Protection Agency — Major Step for American Families (12/11/09) Summary of legislation.

U.S. Foreclosures to Reach 3.9 Million in Second Record Year  (12/10/09) RealtyTrac Press Release

Citi Is Eager to Pay Back Bailout Aid (12/9/09)

New website: Your Money New York (posted 12/10/09)

At Last, One Government Agency Considers Cutting Mortgage Principal For Distressed Homeowners (12/4/09)

Obama’s Mortgage Modifications to Fail, Amherst’s Goodman Says (12/8/09) Testimony here.

In the Public Interest: Rein in the Financial System That Failed (12/7/09)

Treasury Summons Mortgage Lenders to Meet on Loan Modifications (12/7/09)

Why Treasury Needs a Plan B for Mortgages (12/6/09)

Why Many Home Loan Modifications Fail (12/3/09)

Move to Repay Aid Helps Bank of America Shed Stigma (12/2/09)

Written Testimony of Secretary Shaun Donovan, Hearing before the House Committee on Financial Services, FY09 FHA Actuarial Report (12/2/09)

FDIC: Quarter of U.S. households have limited or no access to banks (12/2/09) FDIC report

Borrowing While Black: Applying Fair Lending Laws to Risk-Based Mortgage Pricing (12/1/09) Data files

FHA shuts down Melville-based Lend America (12/1/09) HUD Press Release