Borrowers want to get ahead potential volatility from the November presidential election.
Boston residents face a sharp increase in property taxes or risk $400 million of budget cuts.
The crackdown would be among the first of its kind in the U.S.
A supply and demand problem has emerged: There are too many colleges and not enough students.
High taxes and housing costs have pushed wealthy residents to move elsewhere.
The initiative mirrors a measure recently spurned by Chicago voters.
The ratio between companies' earnings and their interest expense has fallen to the lowest level since the pandemic.
The credit grader expects the high-yield default rate to be as high as 5% by the end of this year.
Half of the 2020-2021 life expectancy decline can be traced to Covid-19, another 16% was related to unintentional injuries.
Issuance of so-called prepaid gas bonds have jumped to some $6.5 billion this year.