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Robust Federal Income Tax Collections Are a Bit of Good News

Early indications are that Treasury’s tax collections this quarter will be ahead of 2024.  That would buttress the Treasury’s cash balance and push off the date when the debt ceiling could lead to bond and money  market disruption.  There had been  speculation that  weak tax collections would accelerate the debt ceiling doom date to as early as  May, but  the collection data to date suggest it will  now be late summer.  Plenty of time for Washington to resolve the matter, if there is a will to do so. 

Strong Federal tax collections might also bode well for state and local revenue from 2024  income-based taxes.

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Something’s Up in Texas

Local government investment pools have flourished in Texas and its local governments have benefitted from the highly competitive marketplace that provides a myriad of options, many at very low cost. But recently the industry has attracted the attention of state legislators who have introduced bills that would alter the landscape, likely to the detriment of […]

The Week After

You can’t ignore the massive market selloff last week, even if cash pools and short-term fixed income portfolios escaped the worst. Equity markets bore the brunt, losing 10-15%. (That selloff continued this morning.) By contrast the fixed income markets seemed a calm and sheltered place. Yes, bond yields fell but the change in short term […]

New Bank CD Benchmarks Provide Transparency to The Market

The collateralized CD market has been a black box for public agencies, where useful information on rates has been hard to come by and public agencies are hampered in assessing relative value. We’ve created a series of new investment benchmarks to address this by tracking rates that banks pay for collateralized public funds deposits. It […]

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