10 financial tips to follow as the calendar turns to fall

Now that autumn has arrived, the clock is ticking louder on certain financial moves you might want to make before the end of 2019.

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Metro Phoenix's housing market looks a lot like 2004. Is a boom and bust coming?

Rising home prices and bidding wars over affordable houses in metro Phoenix are stirring painful memories of the housing boom that led to the area's biggest real estate crash beginning in 2008.

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Trump administration unveils plan to privatize Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has unveiled its plan for ending government control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two giant mortgage finance companies that nearly collapsed in the financial crisis 11 years ago and were bailed out at a total cost to taxpayers of $187 billion.

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For $25, Arizona homebuyers can help solve the state's affordable housing problem

For $25, Arizona homebuyers can help put a roof over the heads of people who can't find a home they can afford.

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