quasigovernment

Palin correctly referred to the GSEs as "quasigovernment" entities that need more oversight.

OpenMarket.org 2008

Now a quasigovernment agency, California's State Compensation Insurance Fund, is taking advantage of the new interest in the area to sell its 17-story former headquarters at 1275 Market St.

Tech Meets the Tenderloin Maura Webber Sadovi 2011

The disclosures included details about the personal financial holdings of the Federal Reserve's other 11 regional bank presidents, all of whom play an unusual quasigovernment role, in which they are involved in the public policy-making role of setting interest rates but run banks with private boards of directors.

Fed's Dudley Details 2008 Holdings Luca Di Leo 2012

Fiercely competitive and locally owned, these quasigovernment entities escaped Beijing taxation.

Geithner Is Exactly Wrong on China Trade 2009

For ambitions this vast, they need to transmute terror into political legitimacy in the same way that Fatah transformed itself into the quasigovernment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), leading to the sight of a gun-toting Yasser Arafat at the podium of the United Nations.

Al Qaeda plots to influence US elections? 2008

Mr. Geithner also said there needs to be a "fundamental rethinking" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the quasigovernment lenders that own or back more than half of the nation's mortgages and have been under pressure in recent weeks.

SEC, Fed Stake Turf on Oversight 2008

Plus, though the government denies it is on the hook for the $5 trillion or so of outstanding GSE debt, investors -- including huge ones like China's central bank -- treat it as ultrasafe, quasigovernment paper.

Uncle Sam in Housing Fix 2008

Research papers are often issued by government or quasigovernment research arms that don't always represent official thinking, though they may indicate policy direction or concerns of policy makers.

Yen Carry Trade Has Risks for China 2007

Their success raised fears that these quasigovernment entities were performing functions that could be handled by the private sector.

Mortgage Crisis Extends Its Reach 2007

He said investors have become slightly less comfortable with debt from quasigovernment bodies like the home loan banks.

Where Countrywide Chief 2007