Memo to Guv: Fire whoever wrote this and everybody responsible for your awful communications.

Comment: It’s a trend making a bad industry worse. They are already hopelessly compromised because they are selected and paid by the same unit of government they are supposed to be effectively rating.

State borrowing to finance employee pension buyouts will only fuel equity bull market, an analyst says.

Nice summary of recent financial news, but note to Bond Buyer’s Yvette Shields: The Obama Center is not his presidential library.

Comment: If you don’t know why the sky is indeed falling, you haven’t been reading Wirepoints.

“At least the lies are bipartisan this time,” Municipal Market Analytics wrote in its weekly market commentary.