<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20747706/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal bond supply projections for 2025 are at a high of $745 billion and a low of $480 billion, with most firms anticipating issuance next year will be on pace, if not surpass, 2024’s record-breaking total. While interest rates, inflation and macroeconomic policy will play a role in the
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A view of the St. Augustine’s University campus with downtown Raleigh, North Carolina in the background.St. Augustine’s University A controversial, high interest-rate loan is helping one of the oldest historically Black colleges in the country, Saint Augustine’s University, stay afloat – for now. After struggling for years to maintain steady enrollment, the Raleigh, North Carolina-based
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A week after Donald Trump won the presidency again, I sat across from Chris Murphy in his minimalist but well-appointed D.C. office. The Connecticut senator sounded like a man who had done a speedrun through all five stages of grief and was ready to talk about what comes next: how his party could learn from
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Eloisa Mendoza has spent 18 years helping people who arent fluent in English navigate complex legal documents. She guides them through stressful events and accompanying dense paperwork, such as citizenship applications, divorces, and birth certificate translations. This story also ran on The Daily Yonder. It can be republished for free. Mendoza works in Elko, Nevada,
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank has cut interest rates by a quarter point to 3 per cent, as it watered down its hawkish language and warned that growth would be weaker than it had previously forecast.
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North Carolina’s treasurer-elect, Brad Briner, said the state should steer away from long-term debt. North Carolina treasurer-elect Brad Briner said he plans to discourage state government from issuing long-term bonds in the next few years though it might sell short-term debt. In an interview with The Bond Buyer, Briner acknowledged that North Carolina, rated triple-A
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US President Joe Biden has granted clemency to almost 1,500 people, the largest-ever number in a single day, saying he was “extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and rehabilitation”. The White
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Share on Pinterest Jamie Foxx has revealed details about the medical complication he experienced in August 2023, sharing he experienced a stroke due to bleeding in his brain. Joe Maher/Getty ImagesJamie Foxx has revealed details about the medical complication he experienced in August 2023, in his new Netflix specialThe actor experienced brain bleeding, known clinically
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In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we’re giving performance reviews of Joe Biden’s presidency. Click here to read the other entries. When Joe Biden was sworn in as president in January 2021, he had good reason to be optimistic about the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being widely criticized forand arguably losing his
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Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. November’s roundup of pressing items in the public finance market includes expert predictions following Donald Trump’s reelection, the prospect of involving the Securities and Exchange Commission to oversee issuer disclosure and more. Click here to read October’s grouping of top news. Eifel
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