By Michael Hendrix, includes “… As investor dollars rush out of the muni market, it is revealing troubling debts as well as questions about the role of fiscal federalism in a time of crisis. … With the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented backstop of the municipal bond market—and calls in Congress for the Fed to begin directly buying short- and long-term municipal bonds—the federal government is making a big bet on America’s states and localities. …”
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