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• NYs Broke

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  "Gov. David A. Paterson took the rare step on Monday of addressing a joint session of the Legislature during its traditional off-season and used the speech to underscore New Yorks deepening financial crisis. Mr. Paterson repeatedly used stark language to describe the gravity of the states economic health as he prodded ...
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• What Are Some Ways That I Can Earn Passive Income?

  
  Earn Passive Income — Authority: 151
  The best way to earn passive income is to invest. You can invest in a number of different things depending on how much you have to invest and how much risk you are willing to accept: - Municipal bonds: are good if you are already making a good amount of money at your job because they are tax-exempt. They are a very ...
  5 days ago

• Important News - Nov. 22

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  1) Bankruptcy an Option, Says Mayor’s Fiscal Task Force (San Diego) “Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | A private task force of prominent local business leaders formed by San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is recommending the city file for bankruptcy unless it undergoes a series of urgent and drastic fiscal reforms, according ...
  6 days ago

• Passive Income With Tax Free Municipal Bonds

  
  Amateur Asset Allocator — Authority: 563
  Tax Free Municipal Bonds, once almost exclusively the domain of the rich, have gotten a lot more attention from the middle class lately.  As it turns out, you don’t have to be in the top income tax bracket to benefit from municipal bonds.  Investors in the 35% marginal tax bracket are obviously better off with tax ...
  1 week ago

• 406 Days Until This Market Crashes…

  
  Investment U — Authority: 546
  406 Days Until This Market Crashes… by Robert Williams , Publisher Friday, November 20, 2009 David Fessler has a sector that warrants your attention. But first, I want to officially raise a red flag in another market. Something’s amiss in the municipal bond market. Year-to-date, “munies” have behaved ...
  1 week ago

• California cuts bond sale over prison legal battle

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 673
  California today pared back its last big tax-free bond sale of 2009, citing legal questions about funding for a prison project. Treasurer Bill Lockyer sold $743 million in lease revenue bonds for the state Public Works Board instead of the $1.34 billion that had been planned. The deal was slashed in size because ...
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• Despite fiscal woes, muni bonds appeal stays strong

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 673
  The good news in the sell-off that has clipped California tax-free municipal bond prices over the last six weeks is that the market now should be harder to shock. So for muni investors, the report Wednesday that Sacramento already may be facing a $21-billion budget gap over the current and next fiscal years was ...
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• JPMorgan Faces New Suit in Alabama Countys Woes

  
  DealBook — Authority: 760
  Jefferson County in Alabama sued JPMorgan Chase on Friday, seeking additional relief on $3.2 billion in county sewer bonds the bank helped underwrite.
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• Prieur’s readings (November 16, 2009)

  
  Investment Postcards from Cape Town — Authority: 625
  This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. • Jennifer Hughes (Financial Times): Visibility improved but storms may lie ahead , November 13, 2008. The fog is beginning to lift. All year executives, analysts and investors have talked of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lenin Visits New York

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  "An old saying goes that the time to live in New York is when youre young and poor, or old and rich--otherwise, youre better off somewhere else. ... Between 2000 and 2008, the Empire State had a net domestic outflow of more than 1.5 million, the biggest exodus of any state, with most hailing from New York City. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York governor sees risk of California bond default

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 673
  Besides understanding his own state’s finances, New York Gov. David Paterson apparently has an excellent grasp of California’s fiscal situation. So much so, in fact, that Paterson feels confident speculating publicly about the probability of California eventually defaulting on its municipal bond debt. In a ...
  2 weeks ago

• California debt binge shakes up muni bond market

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 673
  The municipal bond market’s message to California: Enough with the borrowing already! Over the last seven weeks the state has sold more than $21 billion of short- and long-term debt for budget-related reasons and to finance voter-approved infrastructure projects. That flood -- in a period when muni bond yields ...
  2 weeks ago

• California forced to boost yield on bond sale to lure buyers

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 673
  California has stumbled badly in its latest foray into the municipal bond market -- a sign investors are overloaded with the state’s debt. Borrowing $1.9 billion Tuesday via bonds that mature in June 2013, the state was forced to pay a 4% annualized tax-free yield to lure investors to the deal. Just last Friday ...
  2 weeks ago

• Municipal Bonds A Dangerous Investment For 2009

  
  Earn Passive Income — Authority: 151
  Many times just using logic an investor can steer away from problems. It seemed forever municipal bonds were considered one of the safest investments. One did not get rich by investing in municipal bonds however they were consistent and the default possibility was almost not a possibility. Fast forward to 2009 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Muni Bond ETFs Are Appealing Now

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 561
  After suffering through steep losses last year, municipal bonds and related exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been riding the wave of investment interest in the bonds sector.Municipal bond mutual funds increased 14.4% on average through Oct. 29 and yields have not experienced their current lows in...
  3 weeks ago

• Wait Listed by Jail-11

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  "One of the newest residents on Arizonas death row, a convicted serial killer name Dale Hausner, poked his head up from his television to look at several visitors strolling by, each of whom wore face masks and vests to protect against the sharp homemade objetcs that often are propelled from the cells of the condemned. ...
  3 weeks ago

• SEC smacks JPMorgan Chase with $700 million fine

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 132
  My, oh my, this is quite a large fine. I wonder though, should JPMorgan fail to pay the fine on time, will the SEC hit them with a late fee? Or what if JPMorgan can’t pay it? Another bailout?From the Huffington Post:WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to a settlement worth more than [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Frequent borrower California is back with another bond sale

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 673
  California, which has borrowed $16.4 billion via short- and long-term bonds since Sept. 23, this week comes back to the well once more despite the jump in market interest rates over the last month . The state plans to borrow $2.25 billion by selling long-term general obligation bonds in the next two days, mostly ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Approaching Muni Bond Implosion

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 588
  New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch made a statement last week that should have gotten headlines, but didnt. “I believe that the states across the United States will face deficits a year after stimulus ends of $300 billion to $500 billion a year ,” Ravitch told about 200 people gathered at New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Californias Gestapo-2

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  On 19 October 2009 I received a letter from Californias State Board of Equalization (SBE). What did the SBE, which collects California sales taxes want? I read the letter which described Californias "qualified purchaser" concept and said I should register to pay California use tax on items I bought for which I paid ...
  4 weeks ago

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