The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. They don’t conform to election cycles.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties” (Gladwell 2010, p. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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