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Santa Fe County, N.M., real estate was on a wild ride in the second quarter, and not just because single-family home sales dropped 36% for April, May and June with the COVID-19 pandemic redefining life this spring.

Jan Pieter Janssen is IST Lead for NGA Human Resources, an Alight company.

Craig Hinkley is CEO of White Hat Security.

The court struck down a 2015 update to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which permitted robocalls to cellphones for government-related debt collection.

Guarantee fees became the main source of revenue for government-sponsored enterprises during conservatorship, and reverting to a private stockholder model could create a need for more revenue.

George Friedlander is widely recognized as a leader in the municipal bond marketplace. He is frequently quoted in the financial press on his ideas related to trends and investment patterns in the municipal bond market. Prior to joining Court Street Group, he was employed by� Citigroup and its predecessor firms for 41 years.� He has a BS in Math from the State University at Stony Brook and an MBA with Distinction in Finance from Pace University. Mr. Friedlander� has perennially been ranked within the top three� in municipal strategy in various investor surveys. More recently, he has adjusted his focus to policy analysis within the muni market, as well as the implications of accelerating technological change for state and local governments. Mr. Friedlander has further been recognized with awards from SIFMA and its predecessor firms, the Bond Market Association and the Public Securities Association, and from the National Federation of Municipal Analysts. He was voted the National Federation’s Analyst of the Year in 1989, and received the Chairman’s Contribution Award of the Bond Market Association in 1997. In 2011 Mr. Friedlander received the Lifetime Achievement Award in a poll of institutional investors by Smith's Research and Gradings. �He is currently actively working with state and local public interest groups on ways to respond to potential threats to the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.

The $38.7 billion of equity withdrawn during the period was down 8% from the fourth quarter.

Bobbi Kloss is the director of human capital management services for the Benefit Advisors Network

Diane Manuel, CFP, is a financial advisor with Urban Wealth Management in El Segundo, California.

While the multifamily loan forbearance rate is lower than the most pessimistic projections, Pat Jackson says borrowers are hardly out of the woods yet.