We were severely criticized last week by the left and the right for publishing “CALIFORNIA DEFAULT RISK TURNS BROWN INTO A CAPITALIST.” The report highlighted that California Governor Jerry Brown is steam-rolling environmentalists and regulators to generate more state tax revenue by expediting approval of pro-business infrastructure. But our detractors were stunned to learn from [...]
READ MORE »Moody’s Credit Rating Service just announced the ominous trend that credit quality in the municipal bond market is falling at the fastest rate since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Data released showed that 5.3 times as many municipal bonds were credit downgraded over the three last months than were upgraded. Moody’s emphasized that: “Downgrades dominated [...]
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It was sad to watch Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke being forced to hold a political press conference for the first time in the Fed’s 102 year history. Bernanke nervously defended the merit of the Fed subsidizing $3 trillion in Congressional deficit spending and $2 trillion in Wall Street bail-outs; but he looked tired and [...]
READ MORE »Just a year ago, the Obama Administration was on the verge of converting America into a European style social-welfare state. The President had pushed up federal, state and local deficit spending to 41% of our gross-domestic-product (GDP), a level not seen since World War II. He passed healthcare legislation nationalizing 1/6 of the American economy [...]
READ MORE »California tax payers just took a huge punch in the nose from the same actuaries who provided the cover for state politicians to spike public employee retirement benefits. The latest shocker comes from California State Controller John Chiang who today unveiled a new actuarial report that shows California faces another unfunded debt of $59.9 billion [...]
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