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<title><![CDATA[Soaking up the fair (Boston Globe)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=12clrd0s5/*http%3A//www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/18/soaking_up_the_fair]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[It's country fair time, which means I have to go to the ATM. I have to take out a home equity loan every year to spend an afternoon at the Marshfield Fair. The carnies bleed money out of my kids.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions and answers on hiring an appraiser (AP via Yahoo! News)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=12i4ka37v/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080817/ap_on_bi_ge/mortgage_mess_appraisers_q_a_2]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[ Questions and answers on how consumers can ensure they are getting an honest appraisal when buying or selling a home, refinancing an existing mortgage or taking out a home equity loan or line of credit:]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to size up an appraiser (The Plain Dealer)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=133387cu4/*http%3A//www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/other/1218961985142170.xml&coll=2]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Consumers want to know how they can ensure an honest appraisal when they’re buying or selling a home, refinancing a mortgage or taking out a home-equity loan or line of credit.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions and answers on hiring an appraiser (San Francisco Chronicle)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=13ac36593/*http%3A//www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/17/financial/f101010D87.DTL&feed=rss.business]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Questions and answers on how consumers can ensure they are getting an honest appraisal when buying or selling a home, refinancing an existing mortgage or taking out a home equity loan or line of credit: Q: Who orders an appraisal? A: Most appraisals are...                               ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Brief History of Home Equity Loans (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=12m9e7e78/*http%3A//biz.yahoo.com/portfolio/080815/tag_www_portfolio_com_2008_6_12677.html?.v=1]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[ Louise Story has an excellent history of the home equity loan on the front page of today's NYT. She talks a lot about the explosion in such products -- outstandings rose a thousandfold, to $1 trillion, from the early 1980s to today -- as a product of clever bank marketing campaigns: ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fitch Takes Various Actions on 1 HSBC Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-2007 Alt-A Deal (wallstreet:online AG)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=1264jtdm3/*http%3A//www.wallstreet-online.de/nachrichten/nachricht/2494613.html]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Fitch Ratings has taken various rating actions on the one HSBC Home Equity Loan Trust transaction]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fitch Takes Various Actions on 1 HSBC Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-2007 Alt-A Deal (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=11r22nj5a/*http%3A//biz.yahoo.com/bw/080808/20080808005727.html?.v=1]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings has taken various rating actions on the one HSBC Home Equity Loan Trust transaction listed below:]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Credit squeeze hits college students, families (MSNBC)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=1198l5pc3/*http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26207593/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[With the price of some top-priced colleges and universities north of $50,000 a year and lenders cutting back on student loans, financing a college education is getting harder.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ky.’s Jobless Rate On The Rise (The Kentucky Post)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=12v96i1nn/*http%3A//www.kypost.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f8d5c95e-fa76-4dd6-b088-e80bbc6ad914]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary unemployment rate for July 2008 rose to 6.7 percent from June 2008’s revised 6.3 percent, according to the Office of Employment and Training (OET), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Real estate appraiser regulation is a failure (The Hendersonville Times-News)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/%22Home+Equity+Loan%22/SIG=11vr6k0jj/*http%3A//www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080817/news/665871990]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[As soaring home prices set the stage for America's great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal - the real estate appraisal - was undermined from within.]]></description>
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