Category: Policy

Reviving transportation?

21 August, 2009 (09:40) | Cities, Homeless, Immigration, Innovations, New York City, Policy | No comments

What to do with the homeless?  Can we just wish them away?
 

Just say yes, and an anonymous person vanishes
 
A moral-philosophy question rattling through cyberspace asks, If you were offered $1,000,000 to make someone disappear, would you?
 

Happy to make the stain of homelessness vanish?
 
Actually, as documented in this New York Times article, the cost is much [...]

Cutting turf: Part 2, the sand traps

18 August, 2009 (10:52) | Banks, Capital markets, Policy, Regulation, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1].
 
Yesterday we met beleaguered Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the Administration’s point person on comprehensive post-catastrophe fundamental financial and regulatory reform, who having attained a position of power finds himself opposed not by his enemies but rather by his ostensible friends, his frustration boiling over as reported in the Wall Street Journal:
 

“You [...]

Cutting turf: Part 1, the driver

17 August, 2009 (13:31) | Banks, Capital markets, Policy, Regulation, Subprime, US News | No comments

Turning slabs of excreta into regulatory fuel

In any new or emerging sector, business innovation always outpaces regulation – experimenting with giddy speed and venturing into that free libertarian space which sounds idyllic until the snakes of corruption slither in. Decadence and wild excess ensue, which is fun when it lasts, and then the world [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 3, it’s fixable

3 June, 2009 (09:45) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]

So far, in the two posts expanding upon my analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.], originally published on my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, we saw that (Part 1) [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 2, it may not self-repair

2 June, 2009 (11:32) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

In yesterday’s post introducing my analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.], originally published, via my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, we saw that the US’s multifamily rental affordable housing finance ecosystem got disrupted by [...]