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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. The best time would have been in the 1980s, when the system ran well and was still expanding.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al. O'Connor, D.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6 billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010. trillion, less than one-third of that amount.

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