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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. 

How to prevent pork-barrel spending and bridges to nowhere
State and local governments shouldn't wait for the White House and Congress to come up with the next stimulus package. They should draft a specific new proposal of their own.
Could public pensions help solve the banking and mortgage crises?
Stronger laws would optimize OPEB plans and benefits bonds.
They're a bad solution in search of a problem, and they won't stimulate anything.
Let's triple the infrastructure stimulus -- and put municipalities back to work.
Is an "Infrastructure TBO" worth a try?
It's time for employees to buck up.
Six more new paradigms for a new year
Will local substitutions boost the spend -- or drain it?