By: Poway 20 Year No Interest 40 Year Bond Offering | The Big Picture
[...] for the comments and emails. The single biggest request was for the actual bond offering document, which for whatever reason, [...]
View ArticleBy: Jim67545
One of the basic tenets of lending (or borrowing) is to not finance something for a period longer than the useful life of the asset. And, better yet, for less than the useful life. I wonder what they...
View ArticleBy: 873450
Somehow all this has to be blamed on those greedy public school teachers. They still have pensions. Their healthcare coverage includes a dental plan. They are bankrupting and destroying our country. We...
View ArticleBy: AtlasRocked
Barry when will you do a column on the material act of fraud that is a US bond sale? As a US citizen you are the seller of US bonds. Now you have a buyer walk into Citizen’s Honest Bonds Inc, and he...
View ArticleBy: Barry Ritholtz
4 things: 1. No thanks for the homework assignment, I write WTF I feel like — if this area interests you then YOU write something on it. 2. Someone is buying all those bonds — Guess you are smarter...
View ArticleBy: AtlasRocked
A real argument I had: When we discussed proof of revenue for the US bond sale the other day, you called me a zealot and became indignant. did you do that when you signed for your home loan, and they...
View ArticleBy: Barry Ritholtz
SO WRITE THAT ARTICLE AND GET IT PUBLISHED SOMEWHERE. Wy is it that everyone wants me to do their work for them . . . ?
View ArticleBy: AtlasRocked
You were enraged that Wall street got away with MBS’ that were loaded with mis-rated securities, I don’t think I ever saw you say it was the buyer’s fault for buying them. ~~~ BR: Except that I did. Go...
View ArticleBy: Mark E Hoffer
“…Why is it that everyone wants me to do their work for them . . . ?” yon’ Ritholtz, that is an excellent Rhetorical Device.. though, sadly, methinks you, already, know the Answer.. Answer..They *think...
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“W[h]y is it that everyone wants me to do their work for them . . . ?” Not everyone. Try to avoid eye contact with crazy people.
View ArticleBy: bobmitchell
“Over the course of the 40-year financing, it pays a very rich tax-exempt interest of 6.8 percent. Had the district done a straight-up school bond offering, it would have paid 4.1 percent.” Chris...
View ArticleBy: victor
Excellent piece Barry, I’ll disseminate it to my friends who0 can use this kind of “reminders”. #3 reads: ” Make sure you have expert advisers and lawyers working for you as well”, while #9 advises to...
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