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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. So I went , and lacking translation services I did a few presentations in my then-terrible Spanish. The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. Not enough new buses had arrived. Not all the necessary technology was ready.

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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)

5] An upfront fee translates approximately into a per annum fee by dividing it by four to five, based on an assumption about the expected life of a loan and the level of interest rates at the time. percent upfront fee economically translates into a per annum 0.20 percent fee.