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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent of their book with a CLTV of 80-90 percent, with almost all of it (4.2 18 Even if house prices decline by 10 to 15 percent 19 , which only retraces a portion of how much they rose during the pandemic, the GSEs simply have only a very small percentage of their loan book that would be underwater. They only have 4.4

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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I read a lot of books this year but in many ways it wasn’t a great year for me (it’s improving) so I have mixed feelings about the sheer length of this list and am hoping to read LESS this year. I started to read 144 books and finished 142 but kept up with a few I maybe shouldn’t have. average read per month: 12.

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Urbanism obituaries, 2022 | Death clusters of people, buildings and organizations as an indicator of institutional failure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ). But a rural community in Michigan has defunded its library because it has "gay books" (" Only library in Michigan town to close after voters defund it for refusing to ban LGBTQ books ,").

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Maui Wildfire Disaster Recovery

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Since its release in 2009, Sean's book The Red Guide to Recovery - Resource Handbook for Disaster Survivors has been adopted by emergency management agencies, fire departments, Native tribes, relief organizations, and fortune 500 companies across the U.S.

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Leaks And Leadership: What The Era of WikiLeaks Portends For Traditional Theories Of Leader Information Sharing Practices

Public Policy Blog

In turn, this creates a potential motive for centralizing information in the hands of a single leader” (Komai et al, 2007, p. A story announcing this demand even ran in the New York Times on February 21, 1918 with the headline Request of Secrecy to Book Publishers. Image: WikiLeaks. Accessed June 16, 2013 from [link]. Stegeman, M.