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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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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 an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. In fact, an industry consensus emerged around 2016-7 that F&F have been operating far better in conservatorship in areas such as technology, customer service, and risk management than they ever did prior to 2008. CEO compensation at public-private hybrid levels.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). And they never functioned the way I suggested (e.g., Vision Zero.