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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)

Barrett & Greene

In this edition, weve drawn from the same sources, but have also added contributions from Don Moynihan, who recently left the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University to become a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Enjoy and have a pleasant holiday.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As GSEs, they were highly limited in their permitted activities but given a preferred market position, along with the subsidies and privileges needed to deliver a public policy benefit to the public. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 19] It peaked in 2004 at just over $1.6

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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 More recently, as part of the FHFA’s review, its director said in public that the FHLB System did benefit from the implied guarantee, saying out loud what everyone already knew.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. Bush in 2004. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and