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economicdiscourse.com - 4/16/2009
HousingWire: The Foreclosure Freeze Fuels a Rising Backlog
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HousingWire is an independently managed blog that has become an excellent resource for unbiased housing market analysis. In this article, Columnist Paul Jackson offers his viewpoint that the foreclosure freeze at Fannie and Freddie that expired in March will no longer stall the inevitable. ...
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