The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. 7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 30, 2023

Delgadillo Menahem Schmelzer Barratt Wilkins Betty Lee Sung David Philip Norris Reports Intellectual Freedom Committee put out a six-page report which is well worth reading and can be read here: [link] Report of the Committee on Legislation and the work done by the Public Policy & Advocacy Office at ALA.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

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. billion for fiscal 2024.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’m not a fan of additional layers of neither government, nor federal intervention on state matters in general; however, if the state doesn’t do its job in keeping the local government or municipalities in check in budgeting year-to-year and the community is unwilling or unable to uphold its bargain, change or intervention must occur somewhere.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. There seem to be three reasons for this exceptionalism.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Michael Jacobson, director of Performance and Strategy at the King County Office of Performance Strategy and Budgets put the matter eloquently when he pointed us some time ago to an he had once heard: "Aggregate to communicate and disaggregate to manage."

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Accessible through an interactive AI assistant, the platform provides scalable, accurate, and no-cost access to a treasure trove of data, helping policymakers craft informed public policy that will positively impact peoples lives. Thats why the RAGs are really important from an academic and a policy perspective.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 21, 2022

Much more recently, Michael Jacobson, director of Performance and Strategy at the King County Office of Performance Strategy and Budgets pointed us to an adage he once heard: "Aggregate to communicate and disaggregate to manage.". Every 10 years information is pulled together about every single resident in the United States.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

And so, we’ve always thought that some of the most useful sections pointed out the many challenges, including insufficient resources; a lack of data expertise; weak internal training; counterproductive incentives; fear of adverse reaction; flaws with targets; legislative indifference and lack of sustainability.

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