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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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Leaks And Leadership: What The Era of WikiLeaks Portends For Traditional Theories Of Leader Information Sharing Practices

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In turn, this creates a potential motive for centralizing information in the hands of a single leader” (Komai et al, 2007, p. On June 6, 2013 stories about a secret US government surveillance program that started in 2007 code-named “Prism” appeared 20 minutes apart on the websites of the Washington Post and the UK newspaper the Guardian.

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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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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

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Image: Faggard, 2013. As Faggard concludes his 2013 paper [diagram], “the process of forming online groups capable of creating tension to overwhelm decision makers or government forces through a communication-based social swarm is possible. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Even under the new system, heavily white, wealthy cities that got lower targets than other cities responded to those targets just like everyone else—by committing to more density, providing authors further evidence that legislative reforms spurred action and accountability in how California cities plan for housing.

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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.

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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. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). A study by Vragara et al.,

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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)

billion of “agency MBS” accounts for almost 70 percent of all first-lien (i.e., 25] Interestingly, prior to the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2008, the GSEs did not do risk-adjusting, reflecting more of a government agency approach (i.e., 2] As measured by dollars outstanding. excluding home equity loans) financing.