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Moody’s Predicts Long-Term Increase in Cross-Sector U.S., International P3s.
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New Guidance Aims to Speed Up Approval of Federally Funded Infrastructure Projects.
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Introducing the Fitch Revenue Sensitivity Tool for Public Finance.
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Muni Investors Face Pension Woes.
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S&P: Report Explains Ratings Approach On Distressed Local Government Credits.
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Incentive To Pay: How Recent Bankruptcies Inform Analysis Of Distressed Local Government Credits.
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Rating Correlations For U.S. Local Governments: Proximity Doesn’t Always Matter.
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S&P: U.S. Public-Private Partnerships Encounter New Road Bumps as Political Appetite For The Projects Waxes And Wanes
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What Investors Can Learn From Puerto Rico’s Bond Default.
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DUDE, WHERE’S MY BOND? I’m Ashton Kutcher and I’m Here to Help.
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Neighborly Raises $5.5M from Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8, Ashton Kutcher to Transform the Municipal Debt Market.
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S&P: Federal Fiscal Policy Discord Could Undermine the Economic and Budgetary Environment for States.
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How Standard & Poor’s Treats Public-Private Partnerships in U.S. State and Local Government Debt Analysis.
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Apples are Nice but Pensions are Better.
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Muni Debt Could Be a Bond Market Haven After Fed Hikes.
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Drivers Decry Rise of Toll Lanes as Texas’s LBJ Expressway Opens.
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Possible Impact of a Fed Rate Hike on Municipal Bonds.
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Fitch: Sea Level Rise May Challenge Some Local U.S. Governments.
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Can Social Impact Bonds Help Reduce Homelessness?
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Hedge Funds Fill Gap in the U.S. Municipal Bond Market.
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Fed Rate Increase Too Late for BlackRock, Alpine Muni Cash Funds.
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Markets Provide a Reality Check for the Risky Bet of Pension Obligation Bonds.
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S&P Webcast: U.S. Not-For-Profit Health Care Median Ratios.
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Moody’s: U.S. Not-For-Profit Health Care Sector Outlook Revised To Stable From Negative, Though Uncertainties Persist.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast: (Factoring GASB 67/68 Into Our Pension Analysis And Second-Quarter Rating Trends)
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State and Local Governments’ Ticking Debt Bomb.
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As Charter School Bond Sales Rise, Pennsylvania Fight Shows Risk.
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Fitch Releases Exposure Draft for U.S. State & Local Government Criteria.
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Public Pension Funds Roll Back Return Targets.
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States, Cities Pay $4 Billion in Bond Fees Yearly, Study Finds.
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GASB to Re-Examine State and Local Financial Reporting Model.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 09/03/15.
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Moody’s: Illinois’ Budget Impasse Secondary to Intensifying Pension and Revenue Problems.
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Moody’s: California’s State and Local Pension Costs Rising in Face of Limited Reform Options.
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Taxpayers, More Pension Burdens Headed Your Way.
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GASB Adds Project to Revisit Blueprint of Governmental Financial Statements.
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A New Plan for American Cities To Free Themselves of Wall Street’s Control.
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Bond Insurers Surge on Proposed 15% Puerto Rico Electric Losses.
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Strength in Numbers: Public-Private Partnerships.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast (Hillview, KY And University Of Oklahoma).
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Are Muni Bonds an Income Equalizer?
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New Jersey Completes $720 Million Exit From Derivative Contracts.
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Munis Dodge Market Turmoil With Top 2015 Returns Among Assets.
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Puerto Rico Spends More Than $60 Million on Debt Restructuring.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 8/27
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Fitch: Oil Price Effect on U.S. Locals Will Vary.
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Comment Deadlines Approaching for GASB Proposals on External Investment Pools and Irrevocable Split-Interest Agreements.
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How Can Communities Finance Microgrids for Public Safety?
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast (GARVEES, PRASA, And Pike County Schools).
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Fitch: CA Pension Case Highlights Legal Obstacles to Reform.
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Muni Junk Funds Boosting Liquidity to Avoid Taper Tantrum Redux.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/20/15
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Bloomberg Brief Municipal Market Expert Series.
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Moody’s: State Housing Finance Agencies will Benefit from Increasing Millennial Homeownership Rates.
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Exclusive: New Jersey Paid $720 Million to Exit All Swaps Under Christie.
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Muni Bonds are Poised to Shine as Rates Move Higher.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast (Rating Trends, Atlantic City, And Puerto Rico)
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U.S. Charter School Median Ratios Spotlight Growing Enrollment and Volatility.
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S&P: U.S. Charter Schools’ Median Ratios Reveal a Young Sector Growing Rapidly but with Volatility.
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Are Governments ‘Paying for Failure’ With Social Impact Bonds?
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How to Conserve Water Without Bankrupting Water Utilities.
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Kansas $1 Billion Bond Sale Bolsters Pensions Eyeing Hedge Funds.
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Want a Bike Path? Pay for It Yourself.
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Making U.S. Pensions Honest About Returns Means Bigger Deficits.
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Berkshire’s Negative S&P Watch Hits Almost 1,000 Muni Bonds.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/13/15
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Moody’s: Detroit’s Income Tax Revenue Bonds Offer Better Credit Quality than City’s GO Pledge.
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Fitch: Pension Obligation Bonds Won’t Fix U.S. Public Pensions.
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The Risk in Appropriation Bonds.
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MSRB: Muni Trading Up 14%, Puerto Rico Bonds Among Most Traded.
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Japanese Investors May Add U.S. Munis to Portfolios.
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U.S. Municipal Bond Insurers Set to Withstand Puerto Rico Default.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast: (Rating Trends, Atlantic City, And Puerto Rico)
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S&P: The U.S. EPA Finalizes Its Clean Power Plan, But Questions Still Remain.
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After a Few Years Afloat, Pension Plans Start Sinking Again.
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California Guards Muni Buyers From Bankruptcy With Dibs on Taxes.
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Puerto Rico Shows Perils of Muni Bonds Backed by Empty Promises.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/06/15
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Moody’s: Taboo Against Municipal Bankruptcies Has Weakened.
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Fitch: Medicaid Poses Increasing Risk to U.S. State Budgets.
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The Cost of Water Is Rising – Financing Tools And Strategies To Help Communities Pay: Butler Snow
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Hawkins Advisory (Annual Qualified Mortgage Information)
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Municipal Issuer Brief: Positive Dynamics Remain in Place.
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In Post-Detroit Bankruptcy Era, California Protects Investors Before Pensioners.
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Municipal Bankruptcy’s New Rulemakers.
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How One Mississippi County Played Wall Street’s Fiddle.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 07/30/15
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Bloomberg Brief Municipal Market Expert Series.
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OppenheimerFunds Chases Distress in Puerto Rico, Long Island.
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Pimco Drawn to Tobacco Bonds for Yield Fix as Puerto Rico Twists.
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Chicago Mulls Borrowing That Puerto Rico Rejected as Risky.
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Fitch: US Public Pension Contributions May Rise as Returns Lag.
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U.S. Municipal Bond Investors Stash Cash Ahead of Expected Rate Rise.
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City Upside Down: How Houston Lost Control of its Wallet.
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Illinois Conduit’s Program Offers Boost to Smaller Hospitals.
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S&P: Court Rejects Chicago’s Pension Reform; City Needs New Plan to Address Its Ongoing Structural Imbalance.
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Eight Things We Learned from the Detroit Bankruptcy: Thompson Coburn
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S&P Analysts Address Questions on U.S. Higher Education Challenges, Credit Trends, and Sector Outlook.
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P3s: Managing Risks And Rewards – Thompson Coburn
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S&P U.S. State and Local Government Credit Conditions Forecast: Financial Management Stands Out In an Age of Economic Limitations.
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Chicago’s Pension Law Struck Down.
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Pennsylvania May Sue Firms Over Ex-Harrisburg Mayor’s Bond Deals.
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Puerto Rico Fallout Seen Contained as Muni Defaults Prove Rare.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 7/22/15
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Moody’s: No U.S. Municipal Defaults in 2014, But Credit Quality Erodes for Some Public Finance Credits.
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U.S. Charter School Default Rate Up, but Sector Sound: Report.
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Getting Tested Again: Municipal Bond Funds Face More Stress.
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Municipal Bonds Still Considered Safe, Despite Some Ailing Governments.
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Chicago Public Worker Pension Reform Plan Found Illegal.
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Fitch: Statutory Liens Do Not Boost U.S. Municipal Debt Ratings.
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New California Law Would Secure Local GO Holders in Bankruptcies.
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Social Impact Bonds: A Better Way to Combat Blight.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast: (Median Ratio Reports on Public and Private Universities and Colleges).
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Senators Unveil Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Bill.
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University of Kentucky’s Housing P3 Continues to Break New Ground.
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Recovery Best Seen in California and Texas as Debt Sales Shrivel.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 07/16/15
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Pension Funds Burn Cities as $1 Trillion Shortfall Set to Grow.
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Ratings Value Questioned as More Municipal Borrowers Go Without.
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Is Water a Rising Tide for Investors?
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New Player Seeks to Revive VRDO Market.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast (Puerto Rico And California’s Tax Increment Ratings)
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Moody’s: Fiscal 2014 Medians Show Easing Pressures at Public and Private Universities.
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Putting Evidence First: Learning From the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond.
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Putting the Public Back in Public Finance.
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Municipal Issuer Brief: July Historically Pro-Issuer.
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A Tale of Two States: Comparing PPPs in North Carolina and Ohio.
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Sen. Hoeven Wants to Help States with Infrastructure Needs.
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A Better Way to Set Public Pay.
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How Public Pensions Are Getting Smart About Infrastructure.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 07/09/15
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Public-Private Partnerships Offer Alternative Model for Water Infrastructure Projects.
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Taking on the Ratings Triopoly.
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BAML Stays on Top of Underwriter Rankings; PFM Leads FAs.
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Bad Math and a Coming Public Pension Crisis.
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GASB Issues Proposed Guidance on External Investment Pools and Component Units.
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GASB Simplifies GAAP Hierarchy for State and Local Governments.
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GASB Publishes New Standards for Reporting Health Insurance and Other Retiree Benefits.
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Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act Reintroduced.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast (The Quarterly Ratings Roundup And Allen Park, MI)
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Municipal Issuer Brief: Issuers Using One Rating with More Frequency.
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Georgia Supreme Court Upholds SunTrust Park Bond Financing.
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No Success Like Failure: N.Y. Sees Social Impact Bond Pluses.
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No Easy Pass for North Carolina’s First Privately Run Toll Lanes.
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Puerto Rico at Precipice Piles on Muni Market Hampered by Crises.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 7/01/15
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Fitch: EPA Ruling Relieves Pressure on US Public Power.
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General Obligation – The Mayhem In Municipal Bonds.
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Puerto Rico Worries Put Focus On Municipal Bond Insurers.
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Unlocking the Private Sector: State Innovations in Financing Transportation Infrastructure.
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GFOA’s 2015 Awards for Excellence in Government Finance.
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S&P: Supreme Court’s ACA Ruling Has No Impact on Health Care Sector.
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Advice for Preparing an Effective RFP.
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P3s Can Solve States’ Infrastructure Woes.
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Toll Roads: A Problem or a Solution?
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast (Rulings On State Pension Plans).
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S&P: U.S. Public Finance Upgrades Outpace Downgrades for the 10th Straight Quarter.
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The Phone Call That Could Help Governments’ Credit Ratings.
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Municipal Issuer Brief: Water Issues Impact Public Finance Industry.
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Fitch: Long-Term Cost Assessments Difficult to Gauge in Availability-Payment P3s.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 6/25/15
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Moody’s: Annual State Debt Medians Experience First Decline in Nearly Three Decades.
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Muni Buyers Bedazzled by Junk-Bond Yields Let Protections Slip.
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Proposed Bonds to Encourage Public Private Partnerships and Improve Infrastructure: Butler Snow.
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S&P: Pension Shortfalls Pressure Private and Public Sectors.
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The Dirty Business of Paying for Ratings.
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What’s Next for Pensions? Depends on the State.
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Local Government Procurement Laws – Who the Heck is a “Responsible Bidder”?
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Back From The Brink – Why Bond Insurers Look Attractive Again.
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Fitch: Public Power Riding U.S. Economic Recovery and Low Rates.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast: Provider-Sponsored Health Plans.
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S&P’s Public Finance Podcast: Rating Community Development Financial Institutions.
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S&P U.S. State Pension Roundup: Recent Court Rulings and Reform Slowdowns Make Active Management Essential.
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S&P: U.S. Public Finance Ratings Start 2015 With Another Positive Quarter Despite Puerto Rico Actions.
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Municipal Issuer Brief: Review of DC Happenings.
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S&P Report: U.S. Cooperative Utilities are Maintaining Stable Credit Quality, But Regulatory Changes Might Upset the Cart.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 6/18/15
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Bloomberg Brief Municipal Market Expert Series.
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Moody’s: Unique Enterprise Risk Arises When Municipalities Operate Broadband Systems.
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Behind Chicago’s Rift With Moody’s: Rater’s Tough New Stance.
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S&P: How the Rise of Solar Energy Could Affect U.S. Regulated Utilities’ Credit Quality.
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Project Runway: Airport Muni Bonds Strut Their Stuff.
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Recession’s Legacy Leaves U.S. State Bonds as Muni-Market Laggards.
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Misrated Muni Market Hoists $1.8 Billion Annual Tab on Taxpayers.
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CUSIP Request Volume Shows Possible Inflection Point in Bond Issuance Frenzy.
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S&P: New Jersey Pension Ruling is No Reason to Celebrate from a Credit Standpoint.
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A Tale of Two Public-private Partnership Cities.
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Junk Status on the Rise Among Local Governments.
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Why State Budgets Often Aren’t as Balanced as They Seem.
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Municipals Should Turn Around This Summer, Experts Say.
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Munis’ Rare June Fund Exodus Compounds Worst Quarter Since 2013.
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Puerto Rico Path to Easing Cash Crunch Hinges on Insurer Demands.
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Bloomberg Brief: Deal in the Spotlight.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 6/11/15
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GASB Proposes Enhanced Guidance on Irrevocable Split-Interest Agreements.
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GFOA Members Pass Policy Statement on Retirement Security.
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U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Proposes Rule to Treat U.S. Municipal Securities as Level 2B High-Quality Liquid Assets Under the Liquidity Coverage Ratio.
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Virginia P3 Law Amendments: Good for the Public, Bad for Business?
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GASB Improves Reporting for Health Insurance and Other Retiree Benefits.
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