Issuers dial back risk, but people with good credit can still get loans.

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The Federal Reserve proposed sweeping new rules on Tuesday to clean up the market for subprime and all forms of home mortgages.

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CHICAGO — After a year of falling house prices in numerous parts of the country and a meltdown in the mortgage market that affected borrowers regardless of their ZIP code, many hope that housing markets will finally start to get better next year.

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Some overseas housing markets are doing well. That may signal a rebound in the near future for U.S. markets.

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There they lay in a pile on Christmas morning, next to Santaâ??s plate of half-eaten cookies and the sleeve of new golf balls that had arrived in my stocking: the answers to the global credit crisis.

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The expense of refinancing makes it a poor option for people with a new mortgage, says Dr. Don Taylor.

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