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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. This substantial base of wealth provides ample resources for funding campaign donations or other political support at generous levels. As a result, “[l]andmark rulings protecting competitors at the expense of consumers were pervasive throughout the 1960s.”

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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.

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Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. 2007) Limiting dissent: The mechanisms of state repression in the United States. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). Boykoff, J. 2006b) Framing dissent: Mass-media coverage of the global justice movement. Boykoff, J.

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The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is thus to be expected that Trump II, now in the midst of turning its campaign politics and promises into the policies and actions of a new administration, will similarly put its stamp on how the two GSEs operate in the mortgage markets. This scenario fits the Trump campaign’s “deep state” narrative.

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