Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

The Orlando Sentinel recently published a few articles on Community Development Districts (CDDs) and financial challenges facing some of them. These articles,...

Are you afraid of owning long-term bonds? That's what we're hearing from some investors, who are encouraged by their brokers and financial planners to...

Despite a tough economy, debt service for state-issued bonds will be paid on time in the next fiscal year, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors...

In our recent commentary, "Avoid Headline Hysteria", we discussed the financial “gurus” who gaze into their consistently cloudy crystal balls and continue to...

By all accounts, the new taxable municipal bond program known as “Build America Bonds” (BABs) has been an enormous success. However, as with any new program,...

They're back. In January of this year, a consensus of economists and financial pundits were issuing dire warnings of the imminent, inflation-induced,...

As promised, the Securities & Exchange Commission is initiating a comprehensive analysis of the municipal bond market. The SEC says it will conduct field...

With credit-rating agencies under fire for their role in the global financial meltdown, can investors trust their ratings of municipal bonds? We've been asked...

PBS 'Nightly Business Report' talks to Klotz on bonds.

Fitch Ratings has followed Moody's and will change the way it rates municipal bonds. As a result, thousands of munis are expected to receive a bump up in...