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municipal bond

American  

noun

  1. a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.


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In the $4 trillion municipal bond market, the spread between interest rates on triple-A and triple-B bonds is at one of its lowest points in two years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Meredith Whitney famously predicted municipal bond defaults totaling “hundreds of billions of dollars” on the show in 2010, which never happened.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

By the early 1980s, Van Eaton began four decades of working in the municipal bond business.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

There were lots of reasons, but one of them, Schleicher argues, was its broken municipal bond market.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2023

Better buy a good thousand-dollar municipal bond, Matt.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)