Candidates offer new proposals to aid investors, merchants - Boston Globe

Candidates offer new proposals to aid investors, merchants - Boston Globe Responding to the worsening global economic crisis, Barack Obama and John McCain each offered new lifelines yesterday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook issues in their race for the White House. To help small businesses unable to get Now’s the smart time to buy a home - Edmond Sun Even my optimism has been challenged during the past two weeks. Between the hate crimes being alleged in almost every political advertisement and the cries for financial bailout coming out of Washington, I’m on information overload. I view my Fannie, Freddie to Buy $40 Billion a Month of Troubled Assets - Bloomberg Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) — Federal regulators directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start purchasing $40 billion a month of underperforming mortgage bonds as the Bush administration expands its options to buy troubled financial assets and resuscitate Countrywide agrees to o...