Interesting Personal Debt News Links (March 09, 2009)

* CMHC sees nine-year low in new homes (National Post)

* On Wall St: An FDIC on steroids might be answer for troubled banks (Michael Mackenzie, The Financial Times)

* N.Y. Buyers Get Cheap Homes in Rare Foreclosure Auction

* Friday, February 27 (Jessica E. Saraceni, Archaeology)

* A Little Faith Goes A Long Way (CBS News)

* Home sales lowest since ’97 (Mail Tribune)

* North Providence’s finances are the worst of the worst (Providence Journal)

* Mortgage-relief plan sets 31% of income as goal (News Journal)

* Housing groups attack Obama proposal (Chris Churchill, Times Union)

* Obama taking big political risk with budget (Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle)