Agency Bonds

Many ask, what will happen when quantitative easing ends? China doesn’t want to accumulate more Treasury and Agency bonds and we find the buying from London and the Cayman Islands questionable at best. We have always suspected that the real buyers in part from those locations were the Fed. Quite frankly we believe that QE2 is much further ahead in issuance than we are told. Remember they actually began adding liquidity last June. Problems as a result of such creation of money and credit have been the leveraged unnatural elevation of the stock market. All the funds normally devoted to cleaning up the Treasury/Agency market by banks and institutions have allowed these entities to dis-intermediate their funds to the stock market and commodities. This process has allowed the artificial inflation of prices in stocks and commodities, which in time will become problematic. The Fed knew that the course they were taking would result in just what we have seen and the minute markets see that easing is going to end they would end their participation. One of the key reasons of the treasury bail out was to keep the stock market up. The mirage of wealth had to be maintained since wealth in real estate for the most part had been destroyed. The multiyear bond bull market also looked like it could be coming to an end as real interest rates began to climb some six months ago. QE2 has again fostered risk taking in the form of leverage. … theinternationalforecaster.com www.infowars.com www …

In “Defaults and Diversification in the Municipal Bond Market,” JR Rieger deconstructs the municipal bond market to reveal the factors that are correlated with defaults. While recent headlines seem to paint a grim picture for this market, many muni sectors have remained unscathed. Size of issuance and bond type (general obligation or revenue) also appear to impact default risk. For insights into the current muni bond market and to find out which sectors have been prone to default and which have proven resilient, watch this special edition of the Rieger Report.

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