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Morgan Stanley Insured Municipal Trust (IMT)

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  • Why the Government Doesn't Belong in the Municipal Bond Business [View article]
    How do you spell communism? That is the next logical step. The masses insure ALL risk. No wonder the Governors of NY and California... More »
    Comment by athena
    Nov 25 10:06 am |
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  • Closed End Funds Lag the Market Advance [View article]
    Garrett I use several sources for data collection: Thomson, Lipper and Morningstar. All the data is inputted into a proprietary... More »
    Comment by Joe Eqcome
    Aug 27 21:27 pm |
    Rating: +3 0
  • Closed End Funds Lag the Market Advance [View article]
    Hi Joe, thanks for the great overview of the recent CEF action and changes. What do you use for your data feed / source if I may ask? ... More »
    Comment by Garrett Beauvais
    Aug 24 19:57 pm |
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  • Closed End Funds Lag the Market Advance [View article]
    Sure, Joe SRO is the liquidation trade (in my view). The "clinic" is in an article published Friday afternoon here on Seeking Alpha,... More »
    Comment by Dan Plettner
    Aug 24 11:54 am |
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  • Closed End Funds Lag the Market Advance [View article]
    Dan, Please do me the honor of a clinic on the issue(s). Would you be a buyer of SRO or SRQ? Joe Eqcome
    Comment by Joe Eqcome
    Aug 24 11:21 am |
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  • Closed End Funds Lag the Market Advance [View article]
    Joe, are you familiar with the voting block dynamics on SRO in contrast to SRQ? Obviously, there is a big difference between the... More »
    Comment by Dan Plettner
    Aug 24 10:00 am |
    Rating: +1 0
  • Municipal Bonds: Time for a Closer Look [View article]
    Investment-Income.net can give Municipal Bond Quotes
    Comment by Randy Durig
    Jul 10 12:42 pm |
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  • Why the Government Doesn't Belong in the Municipal Bond Business [View article]
    Why not just have AIG issue CDSs on muni bonds? That way the govt. could insure them in secret so as not to get everyone upset about... More »
    Comment by henarl
    May 11 18:32 pm |
    Rating: 0 -1
  • Why the Government Doesn't Belong in the Municipal Bond Business [View article]
    I do think the Fed wants to insure muni's with FDIC. Consider the recent bonds issued in CA and MI. But here is the real reason. I... More »
    Comment by MDP
    May 11 11:21 am |
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  • Why the Government Doesn't Belong in the Municipal Bond Business [View article]
    Another important question, if the fed guarantee munis, are they still to be considered tax exempt from federal income tax ? If not,... More »
    Comment by Fund Insider
    May 11 10:15 am |
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  • Why the Government Doesn't Belong in the Municipal Bond Business [View article]
    Curriously I have predicted this for a year now. What's compelling and frightening about this is the analogy of FDIC insurance for... More »
    Comment by MDP
    May 11 09:36 am |
    Rating: +1 0
  • Why the Government Doesn't Belong in the Municipal Bond Business [View article]
    Government insurance on municipal debt will result in two things: 1) The price of risk will become extremely distorted and both... More »
    Comment by MinAkkar20
    May 11 08:30 am |
    Rating: +3 0
  • Municipal Bonds: Time for a Closer Look [View article]
    This article is the most interesting and definitive one I have seen. Thanks. Col. Fred Pirkey
    Comment by Col. Fred
    Apr 3 15:03 pm |
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  • Municipal Bonds: Time for a Closer Look [View article]
    could you comment on the supposedly highly attractive yields that presently exist on closed end munis vis a vis Treasuries? Many of... More »
    Comment by User 280802
    Mar 27 15:28 pm |
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  • Municipal Bonds: Time for a Closer Look [View article]
    E J Boyson Appreciate the complement.
    Comment by Carl Dincesen
    Mar 27 13:20 pm |
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