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Now that she has a new job, Harvard law prof Elizabeth Warren isn't wasting time getting started. In her first week as an assistant to Presi

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Transparency emphasized as government mulls Fannie Mae reform

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Desperate U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure are being duped by con artists. The scammers employ a variety of schemes such as a “forensic mo

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Ginnie Mae's troubling endorsements

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Mortgage companies and the new regulatory regime

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Everyone knew it was coming. With all the turmoil in the American financial system, a push for re-regulation was inevitable. The Obama admin

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