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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. Like F&F prior to 2008, the FHLBanks hold themselves out as competitive commercial enterprises, but the truth is that they also are not.

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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)

A presidential administration’s ability to directly manage the mortgage programs and policies of the GSEs was never expected or intended but arose from a series of two unlikely events more than a decade apart. It is at that confirmation hearing that the public is expected to first learn what that agenda is. [4]

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