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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)

billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010. 36] It is worth noting that the FHLBs were supervised by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) from inception in 1932 until 1989, in a very rough emulation of the Federal Reserve Board, with powers that included things like approving executive compensation. (So,

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Unlocking multilingual accessibility: Worldreader’s generative AI journey to expand reach using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since 2010, Worldreader has supported over 22 million readers across more than 100 countries through their mobile reading technology, earning them the US Library of Congress Literacy Awards International Prize. BookSmart offers families a digital library of thousands of captivating books and learning activities.