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This is the first time a coalition representing the buy-side, sell-side and others on the business side of public finance will lobby for specific municipal bond provisions on the Hill.

After a flurry of new muni programs created in response to the pandemic, the Federal Reserve is looking to staff up.

The SSI debate is expected to highlight an array of other federal safety-net benefits that residents of Puerto Rico are denied.

Since a temporary exemption allowing muni advisors to facilitate certain private placement deals expired, a federal court cannot strike it down, the SEC argued.

The public finance veteran was recently special counsel at McCarter & English.

Returns of all the investment grade options "pale in comparison to those for municipal high-yield," which should bolster Texas gas and Chicago public schools deals.

The case has also has fiscal implications for Arkansas, Delaware, Nebraska, New York, and Pennsylvania.

While no FOMC action on monetary policy is expected, markets are watching for how the Federal Reserve partners with the Biden administration and how it reacts to the 10-year Treasury yield rising from 0.52% on Aug. 4 to 1.15% on Jan. 14.

Liang, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, would take a position that has been vacant since 2014.

President Joe Biden's pick for transportation secretary took questions from a Senate panel on how the nation might pay for robust infrastructure.