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A government bailout could cost taxpayers around $25 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and two other regulators are working on a plan to put the troubled mortgage finance companies into a ...
• Landslide hits east Cairo shanty town, kills 24
The area was covered by a thick layer of dust and the scene was chaotic as men and women screamed in grief and blamed the government for a slow rescue operation.
• Mortgage giants were blind to housing risks
As their losses started rising at alarming rates, investors simply lost confidence, forcing the government's historic takeover of the two companies, which could be announced as soon as Sunday.
• Bleak jobs data keep economy at center stage
The unemployment rate in August jumped to 6.1 percent, the highest level in five years, from 5.7 percent in July, the government reported. Businesses cut 84,000 jobs — the eighth month in a row of shrinking payrolls.
• Obama, McCain target working-class voters
Late Friday, sources reported that the government is expected to take over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend.