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  September 5, 2007 Mortgage Lending Regulators Urge Lenders to Help Homeowners Avoid Foreclosures Federal and state banking regulators yesterday urged lenders and investors to restructure the loans

  September 4, 2007 Congress, Treasury Set to Look at Credit Raters’ Involvement in Subprime Meltdown Congress and other federal agencies are looking into some of the causes of the subprime mortgage

  August 31, 2007 Mortgage Lending Bush Will Offer Relief for Some on Home Loans President Bush, in his first response to families hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to announce several steps

  August 30, 2007 Mortgage Lending Arizona  Mortgage Lender Files for Chapter 11 Spectrum Financial Group Inc. filed for chapter 11 protection on Tuesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District

  August 29, 2007 District Judge Overturns Order in Enron Claims Case A U.S. District Court judge has overturned a bankruptcy court's order in the Enron Corp. case, ruling that institutions that

  August 28, 2007 Accountant Bills in WR Grace Bankruptcy Case Probed Federal bankruptcy monitors suspect that the late accountant Loreto Tersigni, who played a leading role advising asbestos

  August 27, 2007 U.S. Attorney General Resigns Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned, the New York

  August 24, 2007 Mortgage Lending States Move to Limit Damage from Subprime Lending Gov. Michael F. Easley of North Carolina signed legislation last week that would limit the ability of mortgage

  August 23, 2007 Report: Business Bankruptcies Forecast to Continue Rising Business bankruptcy filings are expected to top 30,000 by the end of 2007 as the economy, driven down by rising energy

  August 22, 2007 Consumers Seeing Higher Rates, Harsher Terms on Credit Cards and Other Loans As mortgage loans begin to tighten, some consumers are also finding it harder and more expensive to get