Kyle Glazier is the Washington Bureau Chief of The Bond Buyer. He has previously covered securities law, the Far West, and markets. He has previously written for the Houston Chronicle, Albany Times-Union, and The Denver Post. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado.
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WASHINGTON — Mileage-based systems could yield revenues between three and eight times higher than the gas taxes currently used to maintain the public road system and back bonds, the Congressional Budget Office found.
October 18 -
Spanish infrastructure investment giant Cintra will be the private partner on a more than $1 billion public-private partnership to develop the Route 460 Corridor project in southeastern Virginia, sources said.
October 17 -
Housing starts soared 15% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872,000 in September from a revised estimate of 758,000 in August, originally reported as 750,000, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
October 17 -
Industrial production climbed 0.4% in September, while capacity use ticked up to 78.3%, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday.
October 16 -
WashingtonThe District of Columbia will sell $900 million of income tax-secured bonds in November, the biggest amongst a rash of deals closing the calendar year.
October 15 -
Business inventories advanced 0.6% to $1,601.7 billion in August, while sales climbed 0.5% to $1,246.6 billion, the Commerce Department reported Monday.
October 15 -
Retail sales rose 1.1% to $412.9 billion in September after climbing a revised 1.2% in August, originally reported as a 0.9% advance, the Commerce Department reported Monday.
October 15 -
The nation's drinking and wastewater systems are extremely underfunded and in need of billions of dollars of additional bond financing, according to a new study from the Center for American Progress.
October 12 -
The federal government ran a $75 billion budget surplus in September after posting an unrevised $190.5 billion deficit the previous month, the Treasury Department reported Friday, resulting in a final fiscal year 2012 deficit of $1.1 trillion.
October 12 -
A database charting new college graduate salaries in Virginia could help the credit of public universities by underscoring the value of certain degrees and encouraging efficiency, Moody's Investors Service said Friday.
October 12 -
Rep. Mike Coffman, R- Colo., has introduced legislation that would allow governmental and 501(c)(3) nonprofit bonds to be refunded a second time so that issuers and borrowers could save money by taking advantage of low interest rates.
October 11 -
The U.S. international trade deficit was $44.2 billion in August, a 4.1% increase from the revised $42.5 billion deficit in July, originally reported as $42 billion, the Commerce Department reported Thursday
October 11 -
Most of the twelve Federal Reserve districts reported continued modest economic growth in August and September, with healthy tourism and improved residential real estate conditions somewhat offset by mixed reports on consumer spending and manufacturing, according to the Beige Book, released by the Federal Reserve Wednesday.
October 10 -
Sales of merchant wholesalers climbed 0.9% to $405.4 billion in August after falling a revised 0.2% in July, originally reported as a 0.1% decline, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
October 10 -
Transportation and infrastructure policy has taken a back seat throughout the presidential campaign so far, a fact that industry insiders think is an intentional dodge of the daunting challenge of funding new investment.
October 9 -
Consumer credit jumped $18.1 billion, or 8%, in August to $2.725.6 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.
October 5 -
With the economy continuing to grow at a slow pace, the Federal Open Market Committee's new quantitative easing program won approval despite skepticism about whether it would be as effective as previous rounds of accommodation, according to the minutes of the committee's Sept. 12-13 meeting, released Thursday.
October 4 -
New orders for manufactured goods fell $24.9 billion or 5.2% to $452.8 billion in August, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
October 4 -
Fluctuating fuel prices and a reluctance to raise on customers in a down economy could put pressure on public utilities credits in the near future, analysts from the three major credit agencies warn.
October 3 -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Corr V. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, a lawsuit that strikes at MWAA's primary mechanism of repaying more than $2 billion of bond debt.
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