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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Fed officials also talk about the muni liquidity facility and efforts to help the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Chip BarnettApril 20 -
Forecasts see contraction of 5.3% to 7.4% this year and recovery in 2021.
By Chip BarnettApril 17 -
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city's budget shrinks by $6 billion.
By Chip BarnettApril 17 -
Jobless claims fell in the latest week though now 22 million Americans filed for unemployment since late March.
By Chip BarnettApril 16 -
Coronavirus takes its toll on business and sales activity around the states and across the nation.
By Chip BarnettApril 15 -
Biweekly webinars on Zoom will help city small businesses and MWBEs stay afloat in difficult economic times.
By Chip BarnettApril 13 -
Jobless claims declined 261,000 from the previous week’s revised level of 6.87 million, originally reported as 6.65 million.
By Chip BarnettApril 9 -
The housing market may turn out to be a big factor in how fast the U.S. economy recovers.
By Chip BarnettApril 8 -
The council wants to focus on the social safety net in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Chip BarnettApril 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.
By Lynne Funk and Chip BarnettApril 7 -
To help state and local governments after the COVID-19 pandemic, Cumberland Advisors is proposing a new municipal security.
By Chip BarnettApril 1 -
The primary market remained mostly on the sidelines with issuers slow to jump back into coronavirus-driven volatility while also awaiting Fed engagement.
By Lynne Funk and Chip BarnettMarch 31 -
The firm will pre-qualify competitive sales to make sure they meet the ICMA’s green or social bond principles.
By Chip BarnettMarch 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.
By Chip BarnettMarch 25 -
Despite rising 3% in 2019, DiNapoli expects bonuses to drop this year.
By Chip BarnettMarch 24 -
Arlene Bohner has been named Fitch's head of U.S. public finance and will report to Laura Porter.
By Chip BarnettMarch 24 -
The majority of the economic disruption will occur in fiscal 2020, but the revenue impacts will extend into the first half of fiscal 2021, says Moody's Analytics Dan White.
By Chip BarnettMarch 20 -
If the Federal government doesn't help, the $12 billion plan could be funded by the city selling "relief bonds."
By Chip BarnettMarch 19 -
What will change in the age of autonomous vehicles? Almost everything, Mois Navon of Mobileye tells Chip Barnett as they talk about the future of cars and the effect it will have on tomorrow's society.
By Chip BarnettMarch 18 -
The Federal Reserve continued its moves to minimize the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. economy.
By Chip BarnettMarch 17



















