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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. So I went , and lacking translation services I did a few presentations in my then-terrible Spanish. The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. Not enough new buses had arrived. Not all the necessary technology was ready.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

1 FSOC was created by the Dodd-Frank Act in response to certain regulatory failings revealed by the financial crisis of 2007-2009. By doing so, NMSs would operate more as pure mortgage FTPs, significantly reducing their ability to impact financial stability. 2 See [link].

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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)

This translates into considerable clout in Congress and state legislatures. The NAR is very well positioned to pursue such a strategy: it is the second-highest spender among industry associations, 11 and has an impressive 1.5 million members – almost one percent of the entire U.S. labor force of 168 million.

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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)

5] An upfront fee translates approximately into a per annum fee by dividing it by four to five, based on an assumption about the expected life of a loan and the level of interest rates at the time. percent upfront fee economically translates into a per annum 0.20 percent fee.