December 2010

My name is Kevin Olson.

I pioneered fixed income price transparency by first posting Muni Market trade and price data over a decade ago at my site "the old" MunicipalBonds.com. I had to sell MunicipalBonds.com. It broke my heart to do so but that's that, and it is no longer mine.

While I was MunicipalBonds.com I developed into the Muni Market investor advocate; as well as a public finance watchdog. It was not an easy road. I seriously considered walking away, but there are reasons why I am starting up again. One change, however, is that I will be a public finance watchdog first and then investor advocate.

MuniAdvocate.com will centralize my watchdog and advocacy work.

MuniMarket.com will do what it can to actualize a centralized bid-side MuniMarket to help Muni Market investors get a fair and reasonable price when they have to or need to sell.

If you are an Municipal Bond investor --
You should understand that you are in trouble in more ways than just interest rate and credit risks. I will do what I can to help you.

Kevin Olson
(415 )922-7870

U.S. State and Local Public Finance Watchdog and Muni Market Investor Advocate. read more...

03/2012 - ...and/or...Maybe This Means It's Time to Sell

02/2012 - Federal Reserve Says Low Interest Rates

01/2012 - Municipalities, Public Finance and the Muni Markets ARE Bad -- Revisiting Meredith Whitney

12/2011 - Municipalities, Public Finance and the Muni Markets ARE Bad -- Revisiting Meredith Whitney

11/2011 - Public Finance, Not Wall Street Profit : What comes first; "the public budget or the Municipal Bond"? What is all this stuff?

10/2011 - MSRB Biggest Action is InAction

09/2011 - Municipal Security Interest Income's Federal Tax Exemption ... and the proposed Federal "Tax Cap"

08/2011 - Federal Government Debt Limit -versus- Municipal Balanced Budget Dealines and Federal Government Will Also Go to the Pawnbroker

07/2011 - SEC Muni Failure and Martha Haines

06/2011 - Public Finance, Not Wall Street Profit : To the "Pawn Broker" Go State and Local Governments

05/2011 - Municipal Bond Markets: ‘A Dangerous Place to Invest’

04/2011 - Public Finance, Not Wall Street Profit: P3's -- Public Private Partnerships

03/2011 - Public Finance, Not Wall Street Profit: Public Pensions Story Behind the Story -- GASB 45

02/2011 - Public Finance, Not Wall Street Profit: A Continuing Series for "Government Officials"... Structural Deficits; Structural Imbalances

01/2011 - Muni Price Transparency Efforts Began a Decade Ago : A Message for Congress, the SEC, and Commissioner Elise Walter

12/2010 - On Meredith Whitney and U.S.A. Public Finance, Municipal Budgets, Defaults, etc., etc.

11/2010 - Who Defends the Rights of the Muni Investor? Not the MSRB!

2010 "Reformed" MSRB Board Member Candidate Q&A Form read more...

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