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New Jersey is paying $1M a month to Goldman Sachs (GS) for protection against rising interest rates - on bonds that were redeemed over a year ago. The state's transportation fund entered a swap agreement in 2003 that doesn't expire until 2019, though it replaced the auction-rate bonds last year after that market froze. Says one rulemaker about swaps: "The world’s got to see what stupidity even the sophisticated investors like the transportation fund can get into."

New Jersey is the next California,only worst