America Quote by Will Rogers

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Ultimately, a government bond is nothing more than a claim of one portion of the population (those who receive interest) on another (those who…

— Thomas Piketty

I don't think the idea of requiring these to be only sold to people who have already own the bonds, in other words, this…

— Robert F. Engle

People were holding high denomination notes to keep tax unaccounted for money. Some sectors like real estate were using cash to avoid tax.

— Urjit Patel

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

— Meredith Whitney

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less…

— Ron Chernow

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The…

— Jim Cooper

There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds.

— Jeff Berwick

It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but…

— Thomas A. Edison

I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates.…

— David Neeleman

I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too…

— John Kennedy

Enacted in 1994, the first of the MSRB rules bars employees of firms that underwrite state and municipal bonds from donating to any official…

— Steve Kornacki