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Jun 4, 2015
A new UMass study[^cantfind] finds that rich communities pay less for flood insurance. Well, of course they do. There are two simple reasons for that. The first is historical. Wealthier communities generally…
Jun 2, 2015
It's from back in April, but Confessions of a Community College Dean has a great post on extra credit. This is a great outline for why I don't like offering extra credit…
Jun 2, 2015
The NFIP is broke, or so I say in my new article in The Conversation: Floodwaters continue to rise, so it will be days if not weeks before we can calculate the…
May 29, 2015
After just over five months of study, I have completed the Danish Duolingo course. I had played with Duolingo before, but in December the Danish course was added to the Android app,…
May 26, 2015
Senator Chuck Schumer wants to reform how the NFIP manages policies, abolishing the Write Your Own (WYO) system: \[The Senator\] proposes that instead of the existing WYO system, the federal government write…
May 19, 2015
I submitted grades for my public financial management class last night. I told my students there are two critical takeaways from this class. The first is that if you need to make…
May 18, 2015
While Hogan is criticized for illegally transferring money from the capital to the operating budget, we can see the same thing here in Howard County. New Howard County blogger, Jurgis Rudkus,[^clarkkent] addresses…
May 10, 2015
Last summer, a debate over the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) simmered over and went mainstream. Ex-Im received a temporary reprieve, but it was only that and the debate…
May 9, 2015
I am giving the lesson on tax incremental financing this morning at the University of Baltimore. I no longer teach from slides, but here is the slidedeck I used last year.
May 6, 2015
This is the end of the semester write up on the nonprofit project in my financial management class. Two weeks ago, we were frustrated that we had not yet gotten any feedback…
Apr 30, 2015
Stop trying to frontrun the Fed. There will be no rate change this week. — James P. Howard, II (@howardjp) April 27, 2015 See, I told you so. Now, reading Federal Reserve…