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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)

11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). percent” in 2008, according to a study by the Sagamore Institute. The team cut the online prices $5.00 below those of a visit to a branch, and online volume shot up,” the institute found.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice. It already engages in various targeted policy subsidies related to its special mission. This claim is simply untrue. Such low-return LMI programs first show up in two Congressionally-mandated programs.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The lawsuit alleged that the defendants engaged in practices to restrict price competition in single-family brokerage commissions, in particular for homebuyers. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.)

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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

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). Marginalized peoples and communities are using social media to magnify on-the-ground social movement actions and create collective action.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. We did this in 2008 or 2009. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. Rumsey Underground: Arts.