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Bill's Blog
Bill Bergman serves as TIA's Director of Research. He is responsible for managing TIA's federal project and State Data Lab's data base. Bergman spent 13 years as an economist and policy analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Financial State of the Cities 2016
TIA analyzes the fiscal health of the most populous U.S. cities. View our annual report HERE.
State Data Lab
Compare all 50 states and the 75 most populous cities using more than 300 unique data variables.
The Federal Project
Our Federal Project explores various aspects of government financial reporting, and will examine a different theme each month for the next year.
What's the fastest growing and biggest asset on the government's balance sheet?
May 21, 2018
Economic Policy Journal
Bill pours a beer and tells us.
U-Haul investors drool as new tax hike plans pour in
May 18, 2018
The Southern Illinoisan
Illinois isn't going to tax its way out of its fiscal crisis.
Truth in Accounting gives Hinsdale finances a ‘D’ grade
May 18, 2018
West Cook News
The village has $21.8 million in assets and $50.9 million in unpaid bills, the report states.
The 'Big Three' killing California’s public services
May 21, 2018
The Mercury News (California)
Why we should elect lawmakers who will address Medi-Cal, pensions and retiree health care costs
$10 trillion missing from the Pentagon and no one, not even the DoD, knows where it is
May 21, 2018
World Web 365
Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion — that’s trillion, with a fat, taxpayer-funded “T” — and no one, not even the Department of Defense, knows where it went or on what it was spent.
The “accounting view” of money: money as equity
May 15, 2018
The World Bank
Coins circulating as legal tender in national jurisdictions worldwide are treated as debt liabilities of the issuing states and reported as a component of public debt under national accounting statistics (ESA 2010).
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