MUB Offers Broader Bond Mix Than VGIT: MUB’s 30‑day SEC yield ≈3.10% and ~2,500 holdings (Mar 26–28, 2026) contrast with VGIT’s 0.04% fee and shorter duration; institutional allocators must reassess fixed‑income sleeves. 👈 Read full analysis #Investing #Bonds #Finance #MuniBonds #AssetManagement
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🛑 STOP: Your "safe" muni bond is a landmine. Spot the tripwires before they blow up your returns 💥 Watch now: https://youtu.be/cFwWXwDSq14
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Among the WSJ's "Eight Big Climate and Energy Questions for 2026":
Where will #climaterisk pop up in the financial system?
Worsening floods and wildfires will continue reshaping insurance and housing markets. A new paper in Nature warns of a “CLIMATE-DEBT DOOM LOOP” in #munibonds
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"It is just mind-numbing that there's just so little attention on the credit side in terms of this [climate] risk in the municipal bond market," Tom Doe of Municipal Market Analytics told @scrawford.bsky.social
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How The US Government Is Failing Adaptation
@scrawford.bsky.social warns of mounting risks in the #munibonds market because of the current tariff chaos, potential tax policy changes, and investors’ failure to figure climate hazards into their pricing
Issuers in the $ 4 trillion municipal bond market should include climate resilience plans in their public reporting if they want to maintain their supply of investor capital, sustainability group Ceres says in new report
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U.S. Treasury rates weekly update for January 3, 2025.
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U.S. Treasury rates weekly update for December 20, 2024.
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New working paper on #climaterisk vs #munibonds:
- Municipalities facing higher future #wildfire risk increases are already paying substantially higher borrowing costs as a result
- Borrowing cost impacts are significantly larger in areas with higher minority population shares
Most local infrastructure in America is funded via the municipal bond market... but, asks Susan Crawford:
"given the pace of climate impacts already being felt - what if a sudden set of defaults and bankruptcies triggered by extreme weather cause the #MuniBonds to grind to a halt?"
Here's my latest for ImpactAlpha, on #muni market equity efforts.
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fiscal > monetary in the 2020 freeze-up, according to Chicago Fed research
#muniland #munibonds
Fiscal policy had double the impact on the municipal bond market in 2020, paper finds...