MBIA , We Hardly Knew Ye

Story date: 2008-02-20 03:54:00
Added on: 2008-02-23 16:00:55

Forbes - ... bond market. (See "Splitting Bond Insurers Is Hard To Do" ) But it is not clear how the bond insurers can divide their operations in a way that would comfort the municpal bond market and still provide contracted insurance to the riskier mortgage ...


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