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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 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.
GASB is looking at new rules for making sure we pay for services we use.
National health care reform can't bail out state and local retiree health plans.
Are these new municipal bonds silver linings -- or fools' gold?
You get what you pay for -- or don't.
Paralysis must yield to analysis -- soon.