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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. This was more than just a recovery from the severe downturn of the financial crisis.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)

Barrett & Greene

Norton & Company, (2004) Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness , Penguin Books (2009) and the more recent revision, Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge: The Final Edition , Penguin Books (2021. Moynihan, and Gregg G.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

Photo: Center for Community Progress Long before the Cuyahoga Land Bank Authority (CLB) came onto the scene in 2009 to help tackle Cleveland’s inventory of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties , Anita Gardner was driving change in her community. The condemned Carpenters Hall at Kinsman Road in 2011.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, starting in 1995, the accounting authorities began to require that these contracts be put on a servicer’s balance sheet as an asset (called the MSR asset) equal to the estimated market value of the profit flows over the life of the underlying mortgage portfolio. 2 See [link].

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The primary reason is that it does not seem to account for the extremely high earnings volatility of the mortgage business 43 in contrast to the rather stable electric utility business – which I believe mainly drives the latter’s lower cost of capital rather than just the fact that it is price-regulated. Also, the 0.10

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Bilham 2011. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g.

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A READER'S GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE

Barrett & Greene

At the top of the list were Jay Fountain, then at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board; Harry Hatry, whose work with the Urban Institute and other organizations made him a giant in the field, and John Kamensky, who was then with the General Accounting Office (as the U.S. Government Accountability Office was known until 2004.