Cities and states are facing a $1 trillion budget mess. There will be more trouble ahead.

Barron’s-MarketWatch/Leslie P. Horton and Stephen Kleege/8-28-2020

“’It’s worse because the revenue shortfall is uncertain and horrific,’ says [Volcker Alliance’s Richard] Ravitch, now a director of the Volcker Alliance, a nonprofit group that advises on effective government. ‘There’s an enormous loss of revenue going on, and we don’t know how long it will last.’ … The question now: How many municipal bond issuers—cities, states, and others—won’t be able to repay investors?”

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