Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Do public employee pension programs threaten state and local government solvency and bond payments? Not likely. Recently, the popular press has contained...

Who's selling the theory of municipal bond laddering and why do some investors buy it? It's a question we found ourselves asking recently when we heard from...

Amid the alarmist headlines and hysterical rants, a funny thing is happening in the municipal bond market. Prices are rising. As The Wall Street Journal...

The apocalypse in the muni bond market will have to wait. That's according to municipal bond experts who testified at a congressional hearing last week on the...

In the 1980s, Michael Jackson caused a sensation performing a dance technique called the moonwalk, or backslide, in which he appears to be pulled backward...

There was a time not long ago that the municipal bond market was all but ignored by the media. We used to lament the lack of attention given to a critical...

Fear mongers have grabbed most of the headlines, but as we point out in our latest message in The Wall Street Journal, the real news is being made by...

Our message in The Wall Street Journal today piqued a lot of interest. One person we didn't expect to agree with our thoughts, however, was Meredith Whitney....

The window of opportunity for municipal bond investors is garnering more attention. Prominent investors and large brokerages alike have now publicly noted a...

It's hard to miss the dramatic headlines describing municipal bond prices lately; "slide," "stampede" and "tumble" seem to be the expressions in vogue. But...