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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

9] Such PLS bond investments fell into an accounting category where the capital of the GSEs had to reflect the market value declines of the bonds, which were quite severe, rather than the smaller but still significant actual losses that appeared over future years. [10] percent per year, less than half the rate of house price inflation. [5]

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

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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

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. A study by Vragara et al., In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go.