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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)

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. To maintain their profitability and even grow it, F&F had to be heavily political.

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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)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? Bush, when the administration and the Federal Reserve proposed to limit the size of the investment portfolios of the two companies in 2005. But is this argument valid? Also, the 0.10 See [link].

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element. make it almost impossible for mayors to play that role.

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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)

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. This claim is simply untrue.

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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

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. And that feeling feeds communicative capitalism insofar as it leaves behind the time-consuming, incremental and risky efforts of politics. […] It is a refusal to take a stand, to venture into the dangerous terrain of politicization” (Dean 2005, p.