Archive | September, 2009

Watch FRONTLINE: Close to Home

24. September 2009

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FRONTLINE: Close to Home Airs Tuesday, Oct. 27, 9PM on KVIE 6.1 As the U.S. unemployment rate hits a 25-year high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a six-year low, award-winning FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (The Hugo Chávez Show, The Case for Innocence) chronicles the recession’s impact on one unlikely American neighborhood—New York’s Upper East Side. In [...]

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Watch FRONTLINE: The Warning

23. September 2009

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FRONTLINE: The Warning Airs Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 at 9PM–10PM on KVIE 6.1 “We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency—the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) —who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late [...]

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CA Posts Third Highest Foreclosure Rate in August

10. September 2009

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California had the nation’s third highest state foreclosure rate during August, with one in every 144 housing units receiving a filing, according to online foreclosure marketplace RealtyTrac. California REOs dropped 32 percent from the previous month, but the state continued to post the highest overall total of any state, with 92,326 properties receiving a foreclosure filing [...]

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