The Washington Post's Renae Merle posted a story late this afternoon that the Obama administration will unveil the foreclosure mitigation plan this coming Wednesday (2/18).
Here's why you care: Merle reports that three banks have already put a moratorium on foreclosures to wait and see what's in the plan: Bank of America, Citi and JP Morgan Chase. Two take aways: 1) the race is on to get details before Wednesday and 2) this means that arguably the biggest missing piece of Treasury's new recovery game plan announced this week will have a form.
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