• Essential posts present big-picture big ideas on affordable housing, and feature Sherlock Holmes on affordable housing finance.
• Primer posts deal with the building blocks of affordable housing finance, fundamentals like the cost-value gap and the economic dynamics of haggling.

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I’ve been consistently covering several major issues, among them:

• Prescriptions for New New Orleans , Parts 1 and 2, culminates a lengthy series of posts dealing with reinventing the city.
• Fannie Mae’s awfully big advantages lists — hey, you figure it out! — and helps interpret the GSE regulatory reform proposals.
• L’horloge orange diagnoses the French riots and their linkages to housing and European urban development.

Among these are lighter posts on two missing acres, hulk sweet hulk, and the Heisenberg funding uncertainty principle.

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• The four kinds of money
• Soft debt: the Curious Case of the Kindhearted Banker
• Soft equity: the Banker Street irregulars
• Hard debt: Archimedes’ Thumb
• Hard equity: the Adventure of the Six Simoleons

And stay tuned, boys and girls, there will be more thrilling Holmes posts to come!

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GSE reform legislation introduced: 12-Apr-05

Snow falling on Fannie: 9-Apr-05

Fannie Mae: False signatures: 8-Apr-05

GSEs: Greenspan frowns … clearly: 7-Apr-05

Fannie Mae: What will Greenspan say? 6-Apr-05

President nominates Fannie Mae board: 1-Apr 05 (note date)

Facts are scrupulously checked by our state-of-the-art research team ….

Fannie Mae changes how it pays people: 25-Mar-05

GSEs: risks that flesh is heir to: 22-Mar-05

Fannie Mae’s penance begins: 9-Mar-05

Fannie Mae: Too big to sell? 1-Mar-05

New information comes in every day …

More bad news for Fannie Mae: 25-Feb-05

First, you sue: 24-Feb-05

GSEs: Under-serving or un-deserving?: 12-Feb-05

GSE accounting: Clear to you ain’t clear to me: 10-Feb-05

GSEs: New regulators for old?: 1-Feb-05

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Fannie Mae dominoes: 25-Jan-05

Who should regulate Fannie and Freddie? 24-Jan-05

Fannie Mae and Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”: 21-Jan-05

GSE executive bonuses and corporate culture: 20-Jan-05

GSE guarantee fees: fair or foul? 14-Jan-05

GSEs: What do they cost? What do we get? 10-Jan-05

Fannie Mae: Was it just enrichment? 6-Jan-05

Change your audit partners, do-si-do: 5-Jan-05

A puzzle with no solution? 3-Jan-05

GSE affordable housing goals: 2-Jan-05

“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that …”

Brother, can you spare $5 billion? 30-Dec-04

Closing the books… or not? 29-Dec-04

Fannie Mae: did he fall or was he pushed? 28-Dec-04

Fannie Mae’s awfully big advantages: 28-Dec-04

Keeping track of Fannie Mae: 24-Dec-04

“Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of HUD!” 23-Dec-04

Heads roll at Fannie Mae: 22-Dec-04

How much is perception worth? 20-Dec-04

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