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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)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. mortgage originations.

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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, FHLB leadership teams are motivated to maximize profits. trillion of assets) and are the most well-known and studied GSEs. billion for fiscal 2024.

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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.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Waldo , concerned himself with the later, more expansive conception of the dichotomy, which included the process of policy making ( Rosenbloom, 2008 ). He stated “nothing is more central in thinking about public administration than the nature and interrelations of politics and administration” (Waldo, 1987, p. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1988.tb00060.x.

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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)

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008.

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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.

Public Policy Blog

2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). The result is a new set of tasks on the agendas of late modern citizens that enable the creation and continual maintenance of a personally satisfying sense of self—or “personal identity project” (Reynolds, 2008; Giddens, 1991).