Houston Chronicle – How Does a Capital Appreciation Bond Work?
Forbes – A Trillion Dollar Tax Increase That Republicans And Obama Should Agree To
Dallas News – Texas legislators to consider banning controversial bonds
Dallas Morning News – Senate approves limits on schools’ use of controversial bonds
Statesman – Fast-growth districts chided for use of controversial borrowing
LA Times – Gov. Brown signs law limiting risky capital appreciation school bonds
Texas Tribune – Swelling Districts Find Costly Way to Grow Campuses
Texas Comptroller: Approach capital appreciation bonds with caution
California Policy Center – Capital Appreciation Bonds: Disturbing Repayment Terms (Section 5 of 9)
Community college districts’ bonds inflate taxpayers’ repayments
Next City – What U.S. Cities Can Learn From Puerto Rico’s Crisis
NPR – School District Owes $1 Billion On $100 Million Loan
Truth Out – Swimming With the Sharks: Goldman Sachs, School Districts and Capital Appreciation Bonds
New American – Capital Appreciation Bonds: Delaying the Inevitable
Reuters – California law on capital appreciation bonds mostly positive-Fitch
Orange County Register – Bond borrowing to cost local school districts $2 billion
Roosevelt Institute – Debts Not Payable: Puerto Rico’s Payday Loan Crisis
In these times – Puerto Rico Can’t—And Shouldn’t—Pay Its Debts Just to Enrich Wall Street Profiteers
Alternet – How Wall Street’s Greedy Tentacles Sank Into Schools, Trapping Them in Massive Debts
Pro publica – How Wall Street Tobacco Deals Left States With Billions in Toxic Debt
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