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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

They have a credit box 8 that is akin to what existed around 2000 - 2002, i.e., before the GSEs loosened it up as mortgage bubble distortions showed up. 12] This is not a level considered “adequately capitalized” by the regulators. These reforms also include major changes to how the GSEs do their business.

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The New Orthodoxy

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The function of government is to provide a mix of policies, regulations and services that ensure fair and equal access to the benefits and opportunities of a sustainable prosperity forged from a contemporary focus on “commerce”, climate and care. So is this a problem? Well, in many ways it isn’t.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2d 306, 312 (1996) (regulations offer no excuse "where a party has assumed the risk of such regulation"). 2002) (performance excused until it becomes possible to perform rather than excusing performance entirely). Dashiell , 195 Md. 677, 689, 75 A.2d Bobby Murray Chevrolet, Inc. , 222, 230, 465 S.E.2d See Scott v.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Growth vs. shrinking | young vs. old | urban vs. suburban | historic preservation vs. limited building regulation. And I have this "enlightenment-age" idea that we are capable of learning, of having discourse.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A couple years later I helped Brookland create one, and later served as a program manager in Brookland.