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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

Here is the description of the webinar: The economic disruption of COVID-19 will substantially affect state budgets in coming fiscal years, with an estimated $275 billion in revenue losses through fiscal June 2022. EST for Tax Policy and Planning: How States Propose to Bridge COVID-19 Revenue Shortfall.

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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)

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.

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Freddie Mac’s Second Mortgage Pilot: Should the Taxpayer Subsidize Equity Extraction Lending?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Opponents of the pilot, which in particular included right-leaning think tanks and elected officials, plus certain other industry associations, have also made three key arguments for the FHFA to deny the pilot: CES mortgages represent a high-risk loan by the GSEs and would cause large losses in an economic downturn.

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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)

4] The relevant Trump II policy objectives I have identified nine policy objectives that are both likely to be important to officials in the Trump II administration and relevant for shaping GSE mortgage policies and programs. Reform or eliminate specific targeted credit access programs (e.g.,

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