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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). They have a credit box 8 that is akin to what existed around 2000 - 2002, i.e., before the GSEs loosened it up as mortgage bubble distortions showed up.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

and making it possible for them to engage, respond, and share the President’s speech themselves in new and different ways.” Bush administration in 2002. First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). Bush in 2004.