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The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Countrywide Still Growing Mortgage business teetering? No way. Naturally, there's no guarantee that Countrywide will keep inching higher. Investors, the climate can change in a hurry. Take note.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2011 Evan Niu	Lender Processing Services Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of mortgage processer Lender Processing Services are getting foreclosed on today, down by as much as 17%, after the Nevada attorney general sued the company.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2011 Sean Williams	Housing's Catch-22 Things continue to go from bad to worse in the housing sector, and it looks like we may just crash straight through the double-dip floor and head right into the basement.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Seth Jayson	Home Sales Still Sink The National Association of Realtors reports a 12.8% year-over-year drop in home sales as the market returns to normal levels following the housing bubble.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 David Lee Smith	The Mortgage Lenders' Dual Masters Whatever steps some lenders and loan service agents are willing to take to help troubled mortgage holders, the crush of delinquencies and foreclosures, along with radically tightened credit standards in the mortgage industry, will make for a slow recovery for the U.S. housing market.
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The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 David Lee Smith	Don't Go Near Housing Stocks Until the mortgage market gets sorted out, you should still avoid the homebuilders.
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The Motley Fool December 14, 2011 Morgan Housel	Who Really Caused the Housing Bubble The second-home boom.
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The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 David Meier	Quick Take: Subprime Scariness The process, not the outcome, is the scary part of the subprime disaster. Who's to blame? The mortgage lenders? The home sellers? The buyers themselves? (Whatever happened to caveat emptor?)
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The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Cindy Johnson	Are These Former Heroes Going to Zero? Mortgage insurers -- the companies that made it possible to put less than 20% down to buy a home -- have become victims of the housing bust.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2007 David Lee Smith	Fannie's Forlorn Forecast After surviving an accounting scandal, Fannie Mae can handle housing's hurting.
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The Motley Fool March 30, 2007 David Lee Smith	My Mortgage, My Government The current mortgage malaise is not solely the work of the free-market system. Blame government, as well.
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