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Fingerprint Registry in Housing Bill!!!

By: John Berlau
05/23/2008

Earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice.

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Fingerprint Registry in Housing Bill!!!

By: John Berlau
05/23/2008

Author’s note: See follow-up post “Are Borrowers Next?” Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and…

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Abrogating Peter’s Contract to Pay Paul Ã¢â‚¬â€ Mortgage Bailout’s Billion-Dollar Hit to Retirement Savings (Revised)

By: John Berlau
05/07/2008

Many commentators, such as CEI’s Hans Bader, have done a diligent job tracking the costs to taxpayers of the mortgage bailout scheduled to be…

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Abrogating Peter’s Contract to Pay Paul — Mortgage Bailout’s Billion-Dollar Hit to Retirement Savings

By: John Berlau
05/05/2008

Many commentators, such as Open Market’s Hans Bader, have done a diligent job tracking the costs to taxpayers of the mortgage bailout scheduled to be…

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