Thursday 5 May 2011

Whitney Defends Predicted ‘Hundreds of Billions’ in Muni Defaults

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aK02JD8pfJ.o

“States have been spending at two-and-a-half times their tax receipts,” she said. “The states then are cutting off aid to their local governments which rely on them for over a third of their monies. The local municipalities have nowhere to go and their bias is to save their constituents before they save their bondholders.”


“There’s nothing controversial about that call, if you look at the numbers,” she said today, later adding: “This municipal issue, you can criticize me for anything you want, I’m numb to it, because I have more conviction on this than I’ve had on any single thing in my career.”



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