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Charlotte Douglas International Airport – City of Charlotte Revenue Bonds $312 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 05/15/2017: City of Charlotte - Charlotte Douglas International Airport – $312 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of North Carolina. The City of Charlotte is issuing revenue bonds for the Charlotte...
2016 State GDP Growth: Rises in the West, Sets on the Plains
Western States and Deep Southeast See Strong 2016 State GDP Growth, Oil Reliant States Suffer Declines This week, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released their Gross Domestic Product numbers for each state and region for the fourth quarter of 2016 and the 2016...
Hawaii General Obligation Bonds (State of Hawaii) – $856 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 05/01/2017: Hawaii General Obligation Bonds (State of Hawaii Taxable and Tax-Exempt) – $856 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Hawaii. The State of Hawaii is issuing general obligation bonds bonds...
Houston Independent School District Issues Limited Tax Bonds – $838 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 05/01/2017: Houston Independent School District - Limited Tax Bonds (Schoolhouse and Refunding Bonds) – $838 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Texas. The Houston Independent School...
Green Bonds – Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability Continue to Gain Traction
Investors Looking to Do Good Would Do Well to Consider Green Bonds Green bonds are simply a debt instrument wherein capital is raised to invest in an environmentally beneficial project. They are increasing in popularity; the Wall Street Journal is even starting to pay...
Housing Values Reverse Course – Cities Mix of Winners and Losers
Richard Ciccarone presents data and notes on trends in housing values Owner occupied housing values benefited from an uptick in 2015, bucking the trend of four years of successive declines nationally. By no means ubiquitous, some...
Atlanta Revenue Bonds (Water & Wastewater Refunding) $227 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 04/24/2017: City of Atlanta Revenue Bonds (Water & Wastewater Refunding) – $227 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Georgia. The City of Atlanta is issuing water and wastewater revenue bonds in...
The Vote is in for Chicago Growth at Conference on Fiscal Future
Experts and Business Leaders Believe Engines of City's Fiscal Ship Powerful Enough to Steam Ahead, Despite Headwinds The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago hosted an event, 'Chicago’s Fiscal Future: Growth or Insolvency?' on Wednesday at...
Miami-Dade County School District – General Obligation School Bonds $250 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 04/17/2017: School District of Miami-Dade County General Obligation School Bonds – $250 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Florida. The School District of Miami-Dade County is issuing general...
City Pension Plans Take a Surprise Upturn in 2015 – Is Improvement a One-Off?
New Data Show City Pension Plans' Funding Ratios Improve, While Largest State and Local Pension Systems Assets Flat in 4th Quarter 2016 by Richard Ciccarone and Jeffrey L Garceau City pension plans improved their funding ratios in 2015, reaching the highest funding...
Carbon Taxes and Cap and Trade – State Policy Options
The Debate Over a Carbon Taxes, Cap and Trade, or Doing Nothing Matters to Environmentalists, but also State Budgets State governments have a lot of power to go beyond Federal requirements in setting environmental standards. Taxing power is also extensive, and...
California General Obligation Bonds Competitive Issue – $656 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 04/10/2017: State of California General Obligation Bonds (Refunding) – $636 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. California is issuing general obligation bonds in the amount of $656...
Stanford University Offers $500 Million Bond Issue | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 04/03/2017: Stanford University Taxable Bond Series – $500 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. Stanford University is issuing taxable bonds in the amount of $500 Million the week of April...
State and Local Governments See Healthy Tax Revenue Growth
State and Local Government Tax Revenues Increase in Three of Four Major Tax Categories in Q4 2016 The U.S. Census Bureau has released their summary of changes in state and local government tax revenues in the fourth quarter of 2016. Overall, revenues increased by 2.5%...
Massachusetts General Obligation Bonds (Green Bonds) – $778 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 03/27/2017: Commonwealth of Massachusetts General Obligation Bonds (Green Bonds) – $778 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Massachusetts is issuing general obligation and...
City of San Jose Issues $641 Million in Airport Revenue Refunding Bonds
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 03/20/2017: City of San Jose Airport Revenue Refunding Bonds – $641 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. The City of San Jose is issuing airport revenue refunding bonds in the amount...
A Decade of State Unemployment Rate Figures Confirms: Sky Not Falling
Bureau of Labor Statistics New Interactive Unemployment Rate Chart Reminds Us of Just How Bad Things Were, and How Far We've Come Building off MuniNet's analysis of state employment numbers in 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released an interactive chart...
Jobs in the States: Employment and Unemployment Figures for 2016
MuniNet Breaks Down State Employment Figures for Year 2016 in Six Charts The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its annual report on employment and unemployment for regions and states in 2016. BLS includes unemployment rates and employment-population ratios for...
El Camino Hospital (Revenue Bonds) – $287 Million | MuniNet Guide
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 03/13/2017: California Health Facilities Financing Authority - El Camino Hospital (Revenue Bonds) - $287 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. The California Health Facilities Financing...
California General Obligation Bonds – $2.4 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 03/06/2017: State of California General Obligation Bonds – $2.4 Billion This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. California General Obligation bonds are being issued in the amount of $2.4 billion the...
Baltimore County General Obligation Bonds – $199 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 02/27/2017: Baltimore County General Obligation Bonds - $199 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Maryland. The issued bonds are Baltimore County general obligation bonds in the amount of $199...
Delaware General Obligation Bonds – $225 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 02/20/2017: State of Delaware General Obligation Bonds - $225 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Delaware. The issued bonds are State of Delaware general obligation bonds in the amount of $225...
Helping Youth Succeed: Top Pick Status for the College Board
College Planning and College Testing the Focus of the College Board We are nearing the time of the year that many high school seniors and other college applicants receive their college acceptance letters. This is a time of great anticipation, and many decisions need...
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission $438 Million Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 02/13/2017: Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission $438 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Pennsylvania. The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission is issuing revenue bonds in the amount...
High Speed Rail Part II: California High Speed Rail
Controversial California High Speed Rail Project Offers Infrastructure Lessons MuniNet's multi-part series take a closer look at some of the more significant and interesting high speed rail projects and plans going on throughout the United States. The aim is to take a...