Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By David A. Smith
Sitting here in LimboWaiting for the tide to turn.Yeah, now, sitting here in Limbo,So many things I’ve got to learn.Meanwhile, they’re putting up a resistance,But I know that my faith will lead me on.
– Jimmy Cliff
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all!
Whither the GSEs? A year [...]
By: David A. Smith
When everyone else gets sick, even the healthy start having symptoms too.
Oh, I should never have gorged on those ‘07 and ‘08 loans
As one of only three stores left open, still selling single-family and multifamily long-term financing, the Federal Housing Administration – the GSE from the right side of the blanket, as [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, riffing off a thought-provoking Harvard Business Review op-ed by Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, we envisioned the composition of a Financial Invention Review Board (FIRB), and bestowed upon it hypothetical powers.
“That’s a lot of powers!”
Creating a new entity and bestowing upon it such far-reaching powers will [...]
By: David A. Smith
Before we unleash a new financial drug on the world, might it require some clinical field trials? That question lies behind a fascinating Harvard Business Review op-ed by of all people and places, Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories:
What can you do in a democracy when you rely on the private sector [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post opened the topic of compensating investment bankers and a fortiori investment banks as well, taking as initial text Steven Brill’s New York Times profile of TARP paymaster Kenneth Feinberg.
Put up your dukes, Feinberg!
Brill is full of admiration for Feinberg’s jawboning down the bankers’ actual paychecks, [...]
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