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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. More political than commercial.

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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. Also, the 0.10 See [link].

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Government decision makers should take these swarms and their access to democratized digital technologies into account in future planning scenarios” (p. Retrieved from h ttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds., Arquilla, John and Ronfeldt, David.

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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)

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).