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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)

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. 11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008.

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

Have you ever experienced: a limited budget? So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. And when developing quality programs, I think you have to take into consideration one what the objectives are, but what’s your budget for it? low participation? Chris: Yeah.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. Good luck with that. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

USA Today reports that some bankruptcy experts have predicted that Detroit’s case could last as long as three years [a large Californian case in Vallejo took one year to decide if it was even ELIGIBLE for bankruptcy in 2008 then another three years to be released from bankruptcy protection granted].

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Lynch writes on everything from the budget to public service. Steve Pinkerton has been the city manager of Manteca since 2008. Top City Mayor Blogs. Blog from the Office of the City Manager.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

Marc Holzer (editor) and Andrew Ballard (editor) Public Productivity and Performance Handbook , 3rd Edition, 2021, plus Roadmaps for Performance Donald Moynihan, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform , Georgetown University Press, 2008. And, if you have additional suggestions, please send them in!