Chip Barnett

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)

Siebert's Suzanne Shank and Bill Thompson have joined with NBA veteran player Chris Webber in a new program launched by New York State to fund the growth of the cannabis industry that eliminates barriers for equitable participation.

State Treasurer Riley Moore is among of a group of GOP state officials challenging ESG efforts he calls “coercive capitalism.”

The state made "unprecedented additions" to its reserves, protecting its triple-A bond rating, said state Sen. Janet Howell, Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair.

Florida’s unemployment rate has been lower than the national rate for 18 consecutive months, the state Department of Economic Opportunity says.

After a deal fell apart last year amid controversy over private prisons, the state returns with new underwriters and a traditional municipal finance structure.