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The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. However, scalability was not the benefit of the Mercatus team using AWS.

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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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After the Storm: Summary Ejectment and Assistance Programs in North Carolina

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Statutes regulate where security deposits are held, how they are used by the landlord, and how much the landlord can collect. A practice is unfair when it violates public policy or is immoral, unethical, oppressive, unscrupulous, or substantially injurious to consumers. There is no case law interpreting G.S. 42-50, -51.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. Unusually, the industry’s regulator, the Appraisal Foundation, was established by the industry itself and then, in 1989, designated by Congress as its regulator. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator.

Advocacy 101
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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

588, 592-93 (1872) (nonperformance excused when occasioned by act of law); see also Sch. while] [o]ther courts simply conclude that the duty to perform is excused or discharged because performance would violate public policy." Harrington v. Dennie , 13 Mass. 93, 94 (1816); Mis. & Tenn. Green , 56 Tenn. of Olyphant v.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Displacement of retail businesses through increasing property tax assessments ," (2005) -- " Forcing Displacement by the disconnection of tax assessment models from public policy goals ," (2005) -- " Displacement of retail businesses through increasing property tax assessments ," (2005) -- " Dupont Circle's changing retail environment covered (..)

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Greg Stepanicich: COVID-19 and The Constitutionality of the Shutdown

Policy Chats

In this episode, City Attorney for Mill Valley and Fairfield, Greg Stepanicich talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about "police power" and the legality of the shutdown. He joined the law firm of Richard Watson Gershon in 1977 and opened up the firm's San Francisco office in 1998.