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" Municipal bond investors have to share the burden in state bailouts " writes my colleague Josh Rauh, and he is exactly right. Background: State and local governments borrowed a lot of money and blew it. They borrowed further by not funding their pensions. Now Covid comes along, people are ...

At the end of July, Moody's Investors Service released its annual municipal bond market snapshot, US municipal bond defaults and recoveries, 1970-2019, with updates through 2019. The report continues to affirm two hallmark benefits offered by muni bonds. First, municipal defaults and bankruptc...

New York (September 15) - One of the more troubling admissions of Federal Reserve Chair Powell at his speech last month was his acknowledgement that "r-star" (r*), or the "natural" rate of interest, had fallen by some 50% since 2012. As Chair Powell described it: This rate (the r*rate) ...

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Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Municipal bond funds are a great way to gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of these fixed-income assets. These assets provide a safer income, second only to U.S. treasuries for those that live in the U.S. The primary driver ...

European markets have been slumping for years, but the time for those countries to shine again may finally be around the corner as potential investments and renewed growth in European economies is beginning to take off, suggests Jim Woods , fund expert and editor of The Deep Woods ....

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Municipal bonds — which are issued by states and cities — are known for two things: low volatility and high dividends, asserts Michael Foster , closed-end fund expert and editor of CEF Insider . And when it comes to buying munis, the best way to do so is through a...

There's no way to overstate just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our daily lives and the broader economy - and the municipal market is no exception. To take stock of where the muni market is now and what we should look for going forward, we turned to Baird Municipal Analyst Mike S...