Headline News Archive

2017

July

21

• Trump administration cancels hundreds of Obama-era regulations. The White House has frozen or withdrawn hundreds of planned rules, a move aimed at bolstering the economy but that scraps proposed protections for workers…

20

• Hiring a bank lawyer to attack CFPB bank rules. President Trump and Republicans in Congress have broadcast their every intention to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The president’s budget attempted to defund it…

• Voters support CFPB, strict financial regulation. As Republicans push to overhaul Dodd-Frank, a new poll shows that voters favor strict regulation of financial institutions and the goals of the controversial CFPB.…

19

• Progressives revive attacks on Wall Street in health care's wake. When it comes to Wall Street regulations, congressional Democrats have spent the year playing defense. But as the seventh anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act approaches…

• Judge orders Quicken Loans to pay $11 million in fines and damages. Quicken Loans arguably has the mortgage industry’s most squeaky-clean image — named by J.D. Power as No. 1 in home loan customer satisfaction for seven…

18

• Millennials are broke because they're making choices out of order. A record 55 percent of millennial parents have had children before getting married — compared to 25 percent of the youngest baby boomers who did…

13

• New rule bans restrictive arbitration clauses in bank contracts. If you have a bank account, chances are your bank has a contract clause that requires you to go through arbitration if you feel you've…

12

• Miles rechazan recortes de Trump de casi 7.000 millones en vivienda social. Miles de personas llegadas de todas las partes del país rechazaron hoy, en una protesta a un par de calles del Capitolio de la capital…

11

• Black homeowners struggle as US housing market recovers. The nation's homeownership rate appears to be stabilizing as people rebound from the 2007 recession that left millions unemployed and home values underwater, according to…

10

• Asian scammer was arrested for posing as landlord (Chinese). (本報記者)杭亭頓灘市(Huntington Beach)警局在其臉書社交平台公布，當局已逮捕一名涉及假出租真詐財的亞裔嫌犯。該名男子涉嫌在網路平台Craig’slist上刊登租屋廣告，於收取多名租客「訂金」後潛逃。受害人一直到搬家那天才發現遭到詐財，該名男子根本沒有該物業的所有權。  

07

• Sliding from the upper middle class to medicaid. While many people don’t realize it until well into old age, it is Medicaid, not Medicare, that pays for most nursing home and community or…

06

• FTC, realtors warn homebuyers about mortgage closing cost scam. Hackers find a way to get into the email accounts of homebuyers, real estate agents, or realtors. Then, they use that access to obtain information…

05

• Mi informe de crédito tiene errores ¿Cómo los corrijo?. Es importante que el informe sea fidedigno y refleje su historial de crédito porque eseo depende buena parte de su vida financiera Uno de los…

04

• Seven investments to help you get top-dollar in a home sale. Preparation is a critical element of success. When listing your home in a very competitive real estate market, being properly prepared for a broad spectrum…

03

• Program to spur low-income housing is keeping cities segregated. In the United States’ biggest metropolitan areas, low-income housing projects that use federal tax credits - the nation’s biggest source of funding for affordable housing - are…

June

30

• Wells Fargo's scandals just won't die. The thing about scandals in the Information Age is that they just won’t die. Look no further than Wells Fargo.

• Doctor on demand: Reviving the house call. The trend for on-demand service in the age of Uber could revive the house call.

29

• New bill to tighten the owners' self-occupation regulations (Chinese). (本報訊)三藩市市參事會周二一讀通過法例收緊業主自住的逼遷條例，打擊虛報自住後將物業以更高租金再次放租的業主，除了規定業主必須宣誓在三年內的確會在物業居住外，亦新增罰款及允許非牟利機構對虛報的業主提出起訴。

• What to know if you maxed out a credit card and stopped paying. If you’re poor — making less than $550 a week — or relying on Social Security, veteran’s benefits, or disability payments, you can’t be forced…

• Credit Karma offers new site to find unclaimed money. Credit Karma, a site known for offering free credit scores and financial information to consumers, recently launched Credit Karma Unclaimed Money to make it easier…

• Another online way to assess what your house is worth. Do we really need another Zillow Zestimate-style online gizmo to tell us what a computer model says our homes are worth? Probably not.  So why…

27

• How a rising minimum wage affects jobs in seattle. Three years ago, Seattle became one of the first jurisdictions in the nation to embrace a $15-an-hour minimum wage, to be phased in over several…

• How home buyers say their American dream became a nightmare. An IndyStar investigation found Chart Properties LLC has more than 100 contracts for the purchase and sale of homes from which it stands to make…

23

• Does God want you to spend $300,000 on college?. Anyone contemplating the full cost of attendance at what is arguably the nation’s most prominent Catholic undergraduate institution probably wonders just how big those checks…

• Poverty really is the result of a state of mind — among rich people. Recently, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said that poverty is a state of mind, and having the right mind-set will let people escape…