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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. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 19] It peaked in 2004 at just over $1.6

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

while] [o]ther courts simply conclude that the duty to perform is excused or discharged because performance would violate public policy." 2d 342, 345 (2004); see also Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 264 (1981). Brown Amusement Co. , 366, 371, 601 S.E.2d But see Maudlin v. Decision Sciences Corp. , 4th 1001, 1017, 40 Cal.

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