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Mortgage Headlines

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Winner or loser: Mortgage shopper

Rate changes by the Fed can affect consumers' budgets. Here's how the Fed's announcement affects mortgage shoppers and ARM holders.

Winner or loser: Home equity loans

Rate changes by the Fed can affect consumers' budgets. Here's how the Fed's announcement affects home equity loans and lines of credit.

Winner or loser: Auto loans

Rate changes by the Fed can affect consumers' budgets. Here's how the Fed's announcement affects auto loan rates.

Winner or loser: Credit cards

Rate changes by the Fed can affect consumers' budgets. Here's how the Fed's announcement affects credit card interest rates.

Debt forgiveness for homeowners?

Researchers say debt forgiveness is the only way to fix the housing crisis. But will it?


Home Equity Headlines

Bankrate.com: Home equity Headlines

Home equity can be used to buy car

Home equity products can be used to fund a car purchase. But there are risks for the homeowner.

Interest Rate Roundup

Here are the latest interest rates and commentary on five common consumer banking products from Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large banks and thrifts.

Interest Rate Roundup

Here are the latest interest rates and commentary on five common consumer banking products from Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large banks and thrifts.

Fixed-rate loan can cut risk

With interest rates likely to rise, locking into a fixed-rate loan may make sense right now.

Interest Rate Roundup

Here are the latest interest rates and commentary on five common consumer banking products from Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large banks and thrifts.


Alameda Musings

Alameda Musings

Cities Weigh Taking Over From Private Utilities

Alameda ahead of the curve, as always! From the NYT Across the country, cities are showing a renewed interest in taking over the electricity business from private utilities, reflecting intensifying concerns about climate change, responses to power disruptions and a desire to pump more renewable energy into the grid. Boulder, Colo., for instance, could take […]

Alameda woman fighting foreclosure

This is really bad … There’s this woman, her name is Jodie, and the moving vans and probably sheriff’s deputies are supposed to be coming to throw her and her belongings out of her house tomorrow morning. Jodie has been fighting to stay in her home for years. Companies affiliated with Morgan Stanley shuttled the […]

Alameda Store

I saw an ad in the recent Alameda Magazine for The Alameda Store. Here’s your chance to buy Alameda branded items.

Lifeguard chose saving man over saving job

Whoa … what a concept! A lifeguard actually choosing to save somebody rather than stand around and watch. “Someone was in danger,” explained Mr. Lopez, 21, who lives in Davie, in Broward County, and started his lifeguard job four months ago. “I wasn’t going to choose my job over someone in danger. My job is […]

It’s going to be a while

I know every little bit is supposed to add up … but the gap is simply too big for a bandaid to fix. Contracts with the city’s nonsafety unions are expected to produce $873,000 in pension and benefit savings over the lives of those contracts, while increased pension contributions from police and firefighters are expected […]

Do I Qualify?

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Calculated Risk: Housing inventory won’t bottom until 2014 [VIDEO]

New ad campaign highlights California Realtors’ role in state economy

National Association of Realtors to release national MLS

April Fools’ Day real estate roundup

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