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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballparkā€™s 2008 opening. Plus, they are crappy at managing non-sports functions in their spaces.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. UK Government 2008.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time Itā€™s the Federal Home Loan Bank SystemĀ (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 trillion of assets) and are the most well-known and studied GSEs.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009ā€“2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as plannedā€”until 2008.

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A tale of three supermarket companies and innovation: Kroger; Safeway; Albertsons

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Nothing in the way management designed or merchandised the stores made them distinctive enough to engage shoppers and build loyalty. And earlier than some of their competitors, they began opening new stores in center cities, starting with Portland in 2003. Any sort of "wow factor" was totally absent. Petworth, DC.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time Itā€™s the Federal Home Loan Bank SystemĀ (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. mortgage originations.

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