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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As GSEs, they were highly limited in their permitted activities but given a preferred market position, along with the subsidies and privileges needed to deliver a public policy benefit to the public. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

More recently, as part of the FHFA’s review, its director said in public that the FHLB System did benefit from the implied guarantee, saying out loud what everyone already knew. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Among these benefits is the ability to connect people using short messages, instantaneously in a public and transparent way that is easily searchable and categorized via hashtags (#) within the platform. One important aspect of this potential public sphere is its facilitation of social and political activism. 2011; Aday, et al.,