The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

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. More political than commercial.

2008 79

2008 Legislation Housing 2004 79

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. This claim is simply untrue.

Government 52

Government 2008 Housing Implementation 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy. But is this argument valid?

2008 52

2008 2014 2019 Press Release 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. And that feeling feeds communicative capitalism insofar as it leaves behind the time-consuming, incremental and risky efforts of politics. […] It is a refusal to take a stand, to venture into the dangerous terrain of politicization” (Dean 2005, p.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability 2011 2010 40