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How Xavier University of Louisiana’s migration to AWS is creating a “technology renaissance”

AWS Public Sector Blog

University leaders knew that housing important data onsite in servers left the university vulnerable to a complete shutdown in the event of a power outage or hurricane. The university IT infrastructure had not been updated or improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. From my perspective, it has been a total technology renaissance.”

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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)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. Growing profits by exploiting the implied guarantee.

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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)

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.