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With fears roiling the municipal bond market, one firm has begun pitching retail investors an offering the pros dumped years ago: so-called bond insurance.
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This month, bond insurer Assured Guaranty Municipal began offering insurance policies on about 5,000 new and existing municipal bonds [...]
Margaret Thatcher
famously quipped , “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But the former prime minister of the United Kingdom was only half right: What’s really wrong with socialism is its philosophy.
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Good communications by Fed keep inflation expectations at bay; Bernanke press conferences step in right direction
Fed has substantial tools to drain liquidity which have been tested successfully
One such test was just conducted, as the Fed drained $830 in liquidity via a seven-day reverse repo.
Leave it boomers to flout one of the long-held rules of retirement planning. Afraid lawmakers will soon lift the retirement age of Social Security or shrink benefits, many ae ignoring the traditional advice of financial planners and retirement experts everywhere and taking their benefits as soon as possible. Are they right to rebel?
The number of [...]
By Jared Levy, Editor, Smart Investing Daily, taipanpublishinggroup.com
This has been a turbulent week on the geopolitical front, triggering waves in the stock market and sending the price of crude oil through the roof. While the stock market corrects itself (as we anticipated), the price of crude oil seems to be creeping ever higher, [...]
In Col. Moammar Gadhafi , Libya has had a dictator that makes Egypt’s deposed Hosni Mubarak look like a humanitarian statesman. This week, in an 80-minute speech which was megalomaniacal even by Gadhafi’s standards, he proclaimed himself to be “history, resistance, liberty, glory, revolution,” and blamed the uprising on pills and brainwashing as his hired [...]
As political turmoil in Egypt roiled stock markets last week, a thought crossed my mind: Do I own any Egyptian stocks?
Surely not. I couldn’t even say for sure that Egypt had a stock market until I read that trading had been halted. Although the market swooned last Friday, I wasn’t unduly worried about U.S. stocks. [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Two members of Congress circulated a letter amongst colleagues on Friday that accuses China of consistent violations of international trade law, and warns the behavior will no longer be tolerated.
Reps. Mike Michaud, a Maine Democrat, and Thaddeus McCotter, a Republican from Michigan, plan to send the letter to President Obama.
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If the market were trading off of fundamentals, EUR/USD would fall on that comment as it would suggest sovereign defaults will be possible sooner….
Rapid reform is necessary in the euro zone, including of the growth and stability pact, he says.
Christmas Day rate hike was helpful in curbing inflation
China can consider floating deposit rates in market reforms
China needs to consider rate differentials between China, US
