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Buying a house, to put it mildly, is hard. There are a rash of decisions to be made, from deciding what community you want to live in and choosing a real estate agent to determining just how much house you can afford and how much you want to put down. It's a nerve-wracking experience, to be...

Yesterday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced proposed rules to help protect consumers getting mortgages. The general theory seems to be that the subprime mortgage mess was created because mortgage companies scammed borrowers. I do believe that happened in some cases, but the 1% home mortgage...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is recommending that the government impose tighter regulations on mortgage lenders. He says this is necessary to avoid another credit crisis. He says that the regulations are behind the times and we need to update them and exercise more oversight of lenders....