Japan’s has begun severing the global vice grip of the 3 major credit raters. Make no mistake, the “Keystone Cops” ( Moodys, S&P and Fitch) once powerful influence over nations,…
The FINREG bill signed into law this week is already creating economic casualties and a complete standstill for new bond issuance.
Credit raters judge risk & value and were given special limited liability privileges because investors and markets crave their expert opinions. Ideally they provide an objective baseline for consistent rating…
How can investment advisors monitor the 1.5 million cusips from 60,000 different issuers if most bonds ratings are stale or are not rated at all? We need an Bond early…
Here is a good interview with our favorite radio host, Brain Lehrer from WNYC and Andrew Ross Sorkin, columnist and financial reporter for The New York Times as they discuss…
Its fair to say that when rating agencies recalibrated their muni ratings in Q2 2010 to bring them in-line with other debt types, they did not conduct a credit review….
The Las Vegas Monorail Project is dead but long live its muni bonds which while in default, still trade regularly. They are “junk” muni bonds yielding 15%.
A federal court actually allowed an American Indian tribe to get out of a $50 million bond it owed to a private investor, raising concerns among other tribal-casino lenders. The…
Take a look at this WSJ video with Bob DiMella, manager of the Mainstay Tax Free Fund. In summary he says: