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Girard Miller

Girard Miller

Finance Columnist

Girard Miller is the finance columnist for Governing. He is a retired investment and public finance professional and the author of “Enlightened Public Finance” (2019). Miller brings 30 years of experience in public finance and investments as a former Governmental Accounting Standards Board member and ICMA Retirement Corp. president.

Miller writes Governing's bi-weekly newsletter on public finance, which you can sign up for here.

He can be reached at millergirard@yahoo.com. 

It's time to restore balance to the funding of pension plans.
Local pension costs may triple in New York State, meaning costs will outrun revenues, even when the recession ends.
States and cities have a lot of reasons for inaction on funding retiree medical benefits. Some of their excuses are pretty flimsy.
How Build America Bonds have crowded out 'Benefits Bonds.'
Constitutional curbs for runaway public pension plans
It's time to take a harder line on under-priced "bennies." Here's how.
The downside of "pay-as-you-go"
A threat or an opportunity?
Is the Golden State too big to fail?
Alice-in-Wonderland math can't work for Deferred Option Retirement Plans.