Car and home loans fueling U.S. economic growth

U.S. banks reported more loans for autos and homes in the third-quarter of this year,  according to a Federal Reserve study reported by Bloomberg.   The report bolsters other evidence that car and home sales, fueled…Read More

Foreclosures down in Iowa, across the country

Iowa foreclosure activity declined 0.1 percent to 2.1 percent of all outstanding home loans for the year ending Sept. 30, real estate analytics firm CoreLogic Inc. said today. 

Lenders completed  3,380 foreclosures over the time …

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Redefining the American dream

Forty percent of American households rent their homes, and one-fourth of these renters have no intention of becoming homeowners, according to ApartmentList.com, a San Francisco-based apartment-finding search engine. 

“The fact that a quarter of renters …

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Will Sandy raise the price of gasoline?

Concerns that superstorm Sandy may interrupt short-term oil supplies are driving up oil prices, reports MSN Money.

In Europe, those concerns pushed benchmark crude for December delivery up 65 cents to $86.33 a barrel in electronic …

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Some not-so-scary Halloween statistics

What do Census Bureau workers do for fun on Halloween? 

They count things, of course. So thanks to them, here are your essential Halloween census statistics:

41 million: The estimated number of potential U.S. trick-or-treaters (children…Read More

Sorry Mitt; that’s the way the cookie crumbles

Mitt Romney may have won the Des Moines Register’s editorial endorsement, but President Barack Obama won the Principal Financial Group’s cookie poll Tuesday.

The president beat Romney, 431-376 cookies. Employees at the company’s downtown campus voted …

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D.M. man gets big win for his new BBQ sauce

Marlando “Big Moe” Cason, won second place in the sauce category at the prestigious Jack Daniels World Championship in Lynchburg, Tenn last weekend, according to KCCI.com. 

Cason, who has been competing in barbecue contest for six years, said he will begin marketing …

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