Muni Think

The warning signs can reveal themselves in historic audited financials, when combined with more timely economic data.

The Trump administration's seeming enthusiasm for investment in public infrastructure has breathed new life into discussions of the topic, Bracewell practitioners Charles Almond and George Felcyn write in a commentary.

Following the Bridgegate scandal, there's been another political collision in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's world.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative may be done, it seems the enforcement division is not.

We take a deeper look at material information that is reasonably accessible that should be disclosed at or before the time of trade.

Calculations of the impact on municipal yields of tax rate cuts are a simplification of how prices are set in bond markets and should not be relied upon.

The IRS's Final Regulations represent a departure from current rules that will affect long-held practices for issuers, underwriters and financial advisors.

The president-elect would finance his trillion dollar plan through tax credits, bypassing state and local governments, and may move to tax the interest on their municipal bonds.

Among the more influential swing states, Trump claimed Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida – all states with low Geo Scores, which rate economic health on a scale of 1 to 10.

Here are some of the key "known unknowns" — factors that are likely to affect valuations and creditworthiness and functioning in the state and local finance sector — as the Trump Administration and Congress sort them out.