Date: January 5th, 2005

Change your audit partners, do-si-do

5 January, 2005 (12:14) | GSEs |

To replace its fired KPMG, Fannie Mae has selected Deloitte & Touche as its auditor: 
Fannie Mae yesterday announced the hiring of Deloitte & Touche LLP as its new outside auditor, two weeks after firing KPMG LLP in the wake of accounting errors that could cost the housing finance company as much as $9 billion in […]

When does public property become a private good?

5 January, 2005 (09:00) | Affordable Housing Innovations, Essential posts, Government, Housing, Policy, Primer Posts, Public-Private Partnerships, Tenure |

You might think that a public street is a public way, but what if its abutters maintain it? Even in an ostensibly civilized environment — Boston, the Hub of the Universe — tempers flare to the point of blows and vandalism when it comes to that most precious of commodities, a shoveled-out parking space. For […]