Chip Barnett

"I think this deal is kind of like football in the pre-season," says County Comptroller Kevin Hardwick. "We're looking at this new issue as a run-up to next year — the big event — when we hope to be bonding for our new stadium for the Buffalo Bills."

During her almost 14 years as Virginia state treasurer, Manju Ganeriwala oversaw the issuance of more than $33 billion of municipal bonds.

The future outlook now is much more fragile, the Citizens Budget Commission said.

Since 2011, the city has issued about $5.6 billion of debt, with the most issuance occurring in 2021 when it sold $785 million.

Due to their policies on fossil fuels, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo can't bid on state banking contracts in the Mountain State.

A proposal would prohibit fund managers at the State Board of Administration from considering ESG factors when investing the state’s money and require them to only consider maximizing returns on investment.

The Louisiana Bond Commission approved $600 million of notes to help pay Hurricane Ida damage claims after several insurers went bankrupt and up to $1.1 billion to build a biorefinery.

The Miami metro area saw the most private-sector job growth among all metro areas in the state in June and year-over-year.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said her proposed $9.3 billion fiscal 2022-2023 budget, with the tax cut, safeguards the county's fiscal stability and maintains critical services.

Because revenue from riders at the farebox has not recovered as well as the MTA had expected, budget gaps are rising as federal funds are falling.

“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.”

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.

The firm’s project finance & public finance practice comprises more than 50 attorneys and professional colleagues and is looking to add.

Coming back from COVID, states in the Southeast are seeing their revenue streams perk up as economic activity resumes across the region.

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.

Personal income tax revenues rely upon taxpayers continuing to be taxpayers and remaining residents of New York, especially high-income earners.

More frequent and extreme rainfall can produce amounts of stormwater runoff the city’s infrastructure was never designed to capture.

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.

City and state will issue municipal bonds for the domed stadium while lowering taxpayer liabilities.

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)