{"id":1729,"date":"2012-01-06T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2012-01-20T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T01:24:16","slug":"alaskas-bond-rating-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Alaska&#8217;s Bond Rating Upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The credit rating agency Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2012\/01\/06\/2250209\/sp-upgrades-alaska-bond-rating.html\">upgraded<\/a>\u00a0the State of Alaska\u2019s bond rating to AAA, the agency\u2019s highest rating.\u00a0 The announcement, along with a previous <a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1178\">upgrade<\/a>\u00a0by Moody\u2019s Investors Service, constitutes the highest credit rating in state history.\u00a0 This is a result of prudent financial management of state finances.\u00a0 The Legislature has taken the lead on this issue by instituting strong fiscal practices and placing $16 billion into state savings.\u00a0 The higher bond rating will save our state tens of millions of dollars in financing future bond sales.<\/p>\n<p>While high oil prices have provided the state a healthy budget surplus, it\u2019s important to ensure Alaska\u2019s finances stay strong by enhancing state savings, avoiding wasteful spending, and providing the public works infrastructure that will help grow our economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The credit rating agency Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s has upgraded\u00a0the State of Alaska\u2019s bond rating to AAA, the agency\u2019s highest rating.\u00a0 The announcement, along with a previous upgrade\u00a0by Moody\u2019s Investors Service, constitutes the highest credit rating in state history.\u00a0 This is a result of prudent financial management of state finances.\u00a0 The Legislature has taken the lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,7,22,44],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska-credit-rating","tag-bert-stedman","tag-budget","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}