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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

In the 2000s was a key advisor to the project that created Transantiago , a government agency managing all public transport in the capital region. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. Juan Carlos has already been a leader through turbulent times.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

For example, the securities brokerage industry in 1975 was barred from setting prices as a cartel, as it long had; airline fares were deregulated by the government in 1978; and bank deposit interest rates underwent complete deregulation in phases from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. 15 Credit reports.

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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)

Over the near century of evolution of this dominant government role, the business model used by all four agencies has come to rely on packaging those loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and then guaranteeing the investors in the MBS against credit losses on the underlying mortgage loans.