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Risky mortgage program resurfaces in Congress

By Mary Kane | 05.08.09 | 10:43 am

Advocates and economists say support for such a program misses lessons from the housing crisis.

Paulson’s epic fail: Klobuchar slams Treasury on Wall Street bailout

By Andy Birkey | 01.09.09 | 11:07 am

Is Sen. Amy Klobuchar having bailout remorse? In a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., on Thursday, Klobuchar called Paulson’s efforts a “failure” with a “massive transparency gap” and criticized Wall Street for not doing more to…

What will become of all those holes downtown? Minneapolis takes on growing problem of condo-cide

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.29.08 | 2:49 pm

Spend some time in downtown Minneapolis and the truth starts to reveal itself: Underneath all that shiny beauty, nestled between the giant trophies of art and commerce, are holes and pockmarks — acres of empty land that…

US media relatively mum on $1 trillion IMF report

By Steve Perry | 04.10.08 | 4:16 pm

Think of this as a precursor to Molly’s Friday Financials roundup (here): Yesterday the International Monetary Fund released its semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report, and the news was fairly staggering. The IMF now…