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Financial Transparency Score Report
New TIA analysis issues scores to all 50 states based on how transparent they are with their finances.
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.
New: Financial State of the States 2018
Click here to read Truth in Accounting's newest Financial State of the States report.
The Financial State of the 3 Largest U.S. Cities
See the financial condition of New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago.
State Data Lab
Compare all 50 states and the 75 most populous cities using more than 300 unique data variables.
High rise: Evanston voters create a progressive ‘mansion tax’
November 15, 2018
Illinois Policy Institute
An increase in Evanston’s “mansion tax” will tighten the city’s squeeze on property owners making their way out the door.
2018 midterms: Greatest consolidation of party control in state governments in over a century
November 14, 2018
Watchdog.org
When the Great War began in 1914, one political party controlled all state legislatures in the U.S., save Montana. Nearly 104 years to the day of the war’s end, one political party controls all state legislatures, save Minnesota.
The United States of debt: 10 years after the financial crisis
November 12, 2018
Investor’s Business Daily
Ten years ago this fall a dangerously teetering banking sector led Americans to worry that financial crisis would engulf private savings and possibly the entire national economy. In October of 2008 the federal government committed $700 billion to shore up Wall Street, and the Dow still suffered an unprecedented 187-point single-week decline.
Private equity the No. 1 choice for US, UK public pensions in 3Q 2018
November 15, 2018
GlobeNewswire
ATLANTA, Nov. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Public pension plans in the United States and the United Kingdom tracked by eVestment, the global leader in institutional investment data and analytics, announced 233 new allocation commitments to private equity in the third quarter.
Study: US has spent nearly $6 trillion on war since 9/11
November 15, 2018
The Hill
The United States is on track to have spent nearly $6 trillion on war since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a report released Wednesday.
KPMG’s big announcement
November 12, 2018
Expect[ed] Loss
If you're ever in the UK or Australia, you'll notice that local newspapers run what seem to be daily articles portraying popular dissatisfaction with the quality of audits being performed.
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