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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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
