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Having trouble paying your mortgage? Willing to do just about anything to save your house? Adzookie is here to help. The advertising startup is offering to pay the mortgage of homeowners (you must be a homeowner) who agree to turn their houses into billboards for as long as they're willing to keep...
While home prices were falling last fall nearly nationwide, the pace of sales has picked up more recently. Overall, it seems clear that the worst of the housing debacle has passed. It's just that the U.S. remains on a slow, grinding track back to housing health.
Now that President Obama has signed a sweeping tax bill into law, many Americans want to know how they'll be affected. The compromise deal extends Bush-era tax reductions on income, capital gains and dividends through 2012. But there were also some changes.
Congress Again Postpones Medicare Pay Cuts for Doctors
8:15PM 12/09/2010
For the fifth time this year, Congress has voted to postpone steep Medicare pay cuts for doctors. The latest vote gives doctors a year's reprieve from the 25% pay cut, which some have said would keep them from accepting new Medicare patients.
New Report: Fewer Americans Have Health Insurance
9:30PM 12/01/2010
As health-care costs skyrocket, the ranks of uninsured Americans are growing at their fastest rate ever. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that 50.7 million people, or 16.7% of the population, had no health coverage in 2009, up from 46.4 million, or 15.4%, in 2008.
While most people support extending at least some of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts due to expire this year, a new Gallup/USA Today survey finds that Americans are deeply divided on which cuts should continue -- and for how long.
Harris Poll shows slight uptick in those who plan to buy houses
1:00PM 10/04/2010
While nobody should hold their breath here, the most recent Harris Poll on consumer spending plans found that things haven't changed much since May -- with a few notable exceptions.
Those who expect to buy a new house or condo are up from a puny 7% to a measly 10%. Those who expect to buy a boat...
Save money in every room of your house
9:00AM 9/30/2010
As fall creeps in and a chill takes over my house at night, I've been contemplating turning the gas furnace on for the first time. But oh, how I've been treasuring these $40 summer gas bills! Bet you have, too.
Fortunately, there are plenty of ways you can turn the dial back to "middling" when it...
Mortgage Applications Drop 1.4%
8:48AM 9/22/2010
Mortgage applications fell 1.4% in the week ending Sept. 17, dragged down by a decline in the number of applications for loans to purchase houses.
Applications for loans to purchase a home dropped 3.3% from a week earlier on a seasonally adjusted basis, The Mortgage Bankers Association said....
Home Foreclosures Grow for Ninth Month in a Row
3:15AM 9/16/2010
New data from RealtyTrac shows that the real estate market is still on shaky ground. Banks repossessed 95,364 homes in August -- more than in any month since the beginning of the U.S. mortgage crisis.
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