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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. 

Paralysis must yield to analysis -- soon.
New paradigms for a new year
New strategies to shatter the old POB paradigm
The retirement industry took a beating last year. But 2009 still provides some opportunities for the public sector.
Searching for incremental yields?
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?
They're a bad solution in search of a problem, and they won't stimulate anything.