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It was a fitting end to what has been a remarkably bubbly period for London. Over the past decade and a half, ever since its last protracted downturn, the British capital has transformed itself into Europe's indispensable financial center. Leaving Frankfurt and Paris in the dust and encouraged by...
Since the Sept. 15 collapse of Lehman Brothers, the $2.6 trillion market for state and city bonds has been virtually frozen - partly because investors are scared to own anything more dangerous than Treasuries, and partly because interest rates that cities must pay to lure buyers have shot up 25% or...
There are also promising signs that the broader market for municipal bonds is starting to thaw. On Oct. 7, Kentucky sold $400 million worth of bonds to finance education and public works projects around the state. It was one of the first major issues since the Federal Government started taking...
Following the deregulation of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the early 1980's, several of these banks began taking greater liberties with depositors' money, sinking it into risky real estate ventures and junk bonds in an effort to reap maximum profits. Fearful about the future of the vast...
The notion that Asia has somehow "decoupled" itself from the U.S. now seems fanciful. China and America have come so close to merging financially that we can almost speak of "Chimerica." When Fannie and Freddie were on the brink of collapse, many were surprised to learn that fully a fifth...