…least six months after even those with their own origination capacity realised the game was over, and about two weeks before Bear Stearns would issue bonds at the then-junk-bond-area yield…

…year, but investment philosophy and the percentage of stocks, bonds and cash varies widely. “All retirement funds are not equal,” said John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual…

…in default was drawn from the same distribution. As Lehman Brothers bond holders now know, the’re not your fathers defaulted bonds (they are now worth 10 cents on the dollar)….

…the bubble, in the very pages of the WSJ: Another aspect of the market disruption is a dramatic stand-off between bond buyers and sellers: Buyers in both housing and debt…

Decline and fall of western civilization provides another look at repo fails in the US Treasury bond market, up to $2 trillion recently….

…bond investors will do better than others — depending on where they stand along the risk continuum — and under those same contracts, servicers are obliged to treat all investors…

…was my response (11.07.08 – 6:30 pm): As to whatever you were trying to peddle upthread with respect to treasury rates and Bill Clinton and paying down the debt (whatever…

…the HOPE NOW Alliance, the development of the subprime fast-track loan modification plan, and Treasury’s initiative to kick-start a covered bond market in the United States. Prior to joining the…

…2006 election. Another U.S. attorney in Missouri lost his post over a petty complaint from Republican Sen. Christopher Bond, and still another was bumped to make room for a protÈgÈ…

…onetime executive with Drexel Burnham Lambert — the investment bank made famous in the 1980s by the junk bond king Michael R. Milken, who later pleaded guilty to six felony…