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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)

Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. mortgage originations.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46 But is this argument valid?

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The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The current media focus on conservatorship exit, therefore, seems to be driven more by advocacy than by coldly-calculated prediction of what Trump II’s policy priorities will be in 2025. 3] As CEO of Freddie Mac from 2012 to 2019, I was heavily involved in GSE reform proposals as an insider of the conservatorship. See [link] ).

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A rundown on the whistleblowing process in the federal government

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The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, amended by the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 , protects certain civil servants in the executive branch who report waste, fraud or abuse from retaliation or other abuses of authority. The hub also includes all the webinars in our Federal Employee Explainer Series.