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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)

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy. 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Power is a difficult concept to study but if you are tracking outcomes, it becomes a little bit easier as James Battista (2011) states in his paper Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. Battista, James (2011). State Politics & Policy Quarterly , 11(1), 102-118. References. State Legislatures. Darcy, R (996).

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2020 Election: A Divided Congress (with Ben Bishin)

Policy Chats

In this episode, UCR Professor of political science Ben Bishin talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about what to expect from a partisan Congress as we enter President Biden's first term in office. About Ben Bishin : Benjamin G. Bishin is Professor of political science. About Ben Bishin : Benjamin G.

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2020 Election: A Divided Congress (with Ben Bishin)

Policy Chats

In this episode, UCR Professor of political science Ben Bishin talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about what to expect from a partisan Congress as we enter President Biden's first term in office. Interviewers: Maddie Bunting (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Chief Ambassador).

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