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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While the number of people filing for unemployment dropped to 4.4 million, there are now 26 million Americans without work and economists expect the unemployment rate to hit 20%.
April 23 -
Bryan Garcia and Eric Shrago of the Connecticut Green Bank, explain how “Green Liberty Bonds” will expand clean energy investment. The small-denomination munis for retail, modeled after the World War II Series E bonds, are independently certified to fight climate change. Chip Barnett hosts.
April 23 -
The new federal COVID-19 relief package probably won’t be the last boost the U.S. economy will get, economists say.
April 22 -
The New York City Council is set to unveil a COVID-19 relief package of bills that include help for small businesses and tenants.
April 21 -
Existing home sales fell 8.5% last month as the Philadelphia Fed said its indexes fell to record lows in April.
April 21 -
Fed officials also talk about the muni liquidity facility and efforts to help the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 20 -
Forecasts see contraction of 5.3% to 7.4% this year and recovery in 2021.
April 17 -
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city's budget shrinks by $6 billion.
April 17 -
Jobless claims fell in the latest week though now 22 million Americans filed for unemployment since late March.
April 16 -
Coronavirus takes its toll on business and sales activity around the states and across the nation.
April 15 -
Biweekly webinars on Zoom will help city small businesses and MWBEs stay afloat in difficult economic times.
April 13 -
Jobless claims declined 261,000 from the previous week’s revised level of 6.87 million, originally reported as 6.65 million.
April 9 -
The housing market may turn out to be a big factor in how fast the U.S. economy recovers.
April 8 -
The council wants to focus on the social safety net in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 8 -
Tax-exempt and taxable deals priced as dealers opened up their balance sheets to new issues while the market still awaits word from the Fed on coronavirus-led purchase programs.
April 7 -
To help state and local governments after the COVID-19 pandemic, Cumberland Advisors is proposing a new municipal security.
April 1 -
The primary market remained mostly on the sidelines with issuers slow to jump back into coronavirus-driven volatility while also awaiting Fed engagement.
March 31 -
The firm will pre-qualify competitive sales to make sure they meet the ICMA’s green or social bond principles.
March 30 -
The Citizens Budget Commission is calling for far larger cost cutting and predicts that New York City could see $20 billion of lost revenues over three fiscal years.
March 25 -
Despite rising 3% in 2019, DiNapoli expects bonuses to drop this year.
March 24
