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2010

November

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  • Homeowners could see loan modifications. More homeowners may get home loan modifications under a potential settlement being discussed between banks and state investigatorsprobing improper foreclosures, but big hurdles remain, real estate experts say. The 50 state attorneys general are investigating whether
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  • Health savings accounts make sense for many. Even if you eat lots of leafy greens, exercise daily and have replaced your evening highball with a cup of herbal tea, you're almost certainly going to pay more for health care next year. In 2011,
  • Don't underestimate foreclosure crisis. A congressional oversight panel is set to warn on Tuesday that a widespread problem of flawed and fraudulent foreclosure paperwork could upend the housing market and undermine the nation's financial stability, just as the issue
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  • Investors lend money against lawsuit outcomes. Large banks, hedge funds and private investors hungry for new and lucrative opportunities are bankrolling other people’s lawsuits, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into medical malpractice claims, divorce battles and class actions against
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  • New GOP governors will affect healthcare law. Republicans' consolidation of power in state capitols is likely to expand the number of states that employ a far more limited, free-market-oriented approach to implementing the nation's new health-care law than the robust regulatory model
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  • Don't repeal new health care law, improve it. As if Congress didn't already have enough to do next year on jobs and taxes, incoming Republican leaders have made repeal of the new health reform law one of their top priorities. What a monumental
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  • Ignore long-term planning at your peril. Long-term care insurance ought to be an easy sell to families facing the sandwich challenge. Aging parents can buy it for themselves to cover the costs for a lengthy nursing home stay, for assisted living
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  • Mortgage walk-aways prompt changes in credit scores. With foreclosures soaring - and homeowners with unblemished payment histories abruptly walking away from their houses with no warning to lenders - the two major producers of credit scores have begun changing how they evaluate
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  • Repeal 'Obamacare': GOP will try. "Repeal Obamacare!" might be the battle cry that swept Republicans into control of the House, but making good on the promise will be tough. GOP candidates pledged that their first item of business would be
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  • Flexible spending account rules change. Drugstores are busy places in December, and it's not just because scented soap and singing toothbrushes make excellent last-minute holiday gifts. They also get a lot of business from people looking to spend what's left

October

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  • Credit history matters more than before. When the financial crisis hit, many banks became tight-fisted, and plenty of borrowers walked away empty-handed. But financial institutions have emerged from the recession stronger and ready to lend. "Credit is available. No question about
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  • State A.Gs take on foreclosures. Have you noticed that the lead dogs investigating the mortgage foreclosure mess are not any federal prosecutors or national bank regulators, but rather the state attorneys general? I sure have. I can’t think of
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  • The Mortgage Morass. The mortgage mess just keeps getting messier. Last week, Bank of America announced that it had performed a “thorough review” of its processes, found nothing amiss and would soon restart 102,000 pending foreclosures. On Sunday, the
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  • Recession's reverberations keep pummeling the young. As the nation struggles with the aftermath of the Great Recession, few groups have suffered greater setbacks or face greater long-term damage than young Americans — damage that could shadow their entire working lives. Unemployment for 2
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  • Comparing the price of medical procedures. In bygone days, when more workers had comprehensive healthcare insurance, the price of medical procedures was not much of an issue. But now, with many people having to make do with high-deductable plans — if they
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  • Battle lines form in clash over foreclosures. About a month after Washington Mutual Bank made a multimillion-dollar mortgage loan on a mountain home near Santa Barbara, Calif., a crucial piece of paperwork disappeared. But bank officials were unperturbed. After conducting a “due
 

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