Chip Barnett is a journalist with almost 50 years of professional experience. He started his career at the Gannett Newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., working his way up from back-shop compositor to Senior News Editor. Barnett later worked for Thomson Reuters in Manhattan, covering state and local government finance as a Reporter and later Executive Editor for TM3.com and as Editor in Charge of Municipal Finance for Reuters News. Later, he was the Editor of Municipal Finance Today at SourceMedia. Barnett has also worked for DebtWire/Municipals and has written about commercial real estate in South Florida and the Midwest for both The Real Deal and Globe Street. Barnett is currently a Reporter at The Bond Buyer.
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“In the Great Recession it took us like seven or eight years to get back to where we were pre-recession,” Florida's Ben Watkins said. “This time it was less than 24 months.”
July 20 -
Personal income tax data indicates the stock market slump is taking a toll on tax collections, Comptroller Brad Lander said in a report on the city's finances.
July 15 -
The firm’s project finance & public finance practice comprises more than 50 attorneys and professional colleagues and is looking to add.
July 14 -
Coming back from COVID, states in the Southeast are seeing their revenue streams perk up as economic activity resumes across the region.
July 13 -
While small in size and population, D.C. is a wealthy area. If it were a state, it would rank 47th in population while its per-capita income leads all 50 states and it has a GDP greater than 17 states.
July 12 -
Personal income tax revenues rely upon taxpayers continuing to be taxpayers and remaining residents of New York, especially high-income earners.
July 11 -
More frequent and extreme rainfall can produce amounts of stormwater runoff the city’s infrastructure was never designed to capture.
July 7 -
Fitch Ratings said the upgrade reflects the city's improved operating performance due to a robust tax revenue rebound and management's proactive budgetary actions.
July 7 -
City and state will issue municipal bonds for the domed stadium while lowering taxpayer liabilities.
July 6 -
Daniel Berger, Senior Municipal Strategist at Refiniv Municipal Market Data, talks about what’s in store for the municipal bond market in the second half of this year. Are munis set to rally in the next few months? He looks at market volatility and talks about who holds muni bonds, bond fund outflows and discusses muni to Treasury ratios and the yield curve. Gary Siegel and Chip Barnett host. (15 minutes)
July 5
