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    Home Foreclosures and Economic Recovery

    For the first time in a single month, September saw more than 100,000 home foreclosures . Foreclosure sales are now one-third of the housing market. At the same time, the attorneys general of all 50 states are investigating claims of foreclosure fraud by the entire banking industry. Where is Washington?

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    For the first time in a single month, September saw more than 100,000 home foreclosures. Foreclosure sales are now one-third of the housing market. At the same time, the attorneys general of all 50 states are investigating claims of foreclosure fraud by the entire banking industry. Where is Washington? Is it time for a foreclosure moratorium, or would that bring a grinding halt to the housing market and a threat to economic recovery? We hear the details of foreclosure fraud and why lending practices mean that nobody knows who really own millions of houses.

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      Warren Olney

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      Sonya Geis

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      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Washington Post

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      Attorney, Ticktin Law Group

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      Carrington Holdings

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Robo-Signers, Foreclosures and the Battered Housing Market
    1. 0:00Talking with the Taliban
    2. 7:31Home Foreclosures and Economic RecoveryYou’re reading this
    3. 44:14Chinese Communist Party Elders Call for End to Censorship
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