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  We used to have fun commenting about the bond market, including Treasuries, Mortgages, Municipals, and Corporates. But that was before the dark times. Before deleveraging. <b>Contact the Author: accruedint at gmail.com</b>

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• SAMSUNG RATCHETS UP THE COMPETITION WITH APPLE

  posted to Accrued Interest on Mon 29th Apr 13

  Apple (AAPL) has had a significant advantage in the smartphone market for the past few years.  They have roughly 400 stores dedicated to selling their products to consumers, including the iPhone, whereas other smartphone makers have been forced to rely

• MORE LAYOFFS COMING TO DISNEY

  posted to Accrued Interest on Mon 29th Apr 13

  Earlier this week The Walt Disney Company (DIS) shut down the video game company Lucas Arts, laying off 150 employees.  Last September, Disney cut about 200 people at its Disney Interactive video game, as the company moved away from console games to focus

• Sequestration Resistant Investments

  posted to Accrued Interest on Thu 4th Apr 13

  Are you concerned about how sequestration will affect your portfolio?  Are you looking for companies in which to invest that arent likely to be affected?  Look no further than the utility industry.  Why?  Utility companies tend to have highly

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• 2009 Forecast Episode II: Deflation Strikes Back

  posted to Accrued Interest on Fri 9th Jan 09

  This is Part II of a indeterminate series on the Accrued Interest 2009 Forecast. Here I'll focus on general interest rates and Treasury Bonds.The question on many lips is are Treasury bonds a bubble? I've already said that fighting deflation will be the major

• What the hell is going on with munis?

  posted to Accrued Interest on Tue 4th Mar 08

  To understand what's happening in munis, and why its got so many people worried, you first have to understand how it used to work. You know, way back in early 2007.When a municipality wanted to do a bond issue, they would hire an investment bank, who would

• How Safe are the GSE's?

  posted to Accrued Interest on Mon 19th May 08

  Freddie Mac's earnings release from last week created quite a buzz. It was initially viewed as an unmitigated positive, but upon further review, we all realized Freddie's accounting is too opaque to draw any reasonable conclusions.I do feel that there have

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• Links 10/10/09

  posted to naked capitalism on Sat 10th Oct 09

  Any Data You Give Google Can And Will Be Used Against You Clusterstock. I stand by my prejudice against G-Mail, although I am told the only way to have any hope of real privacy (aside from using complicated coded messages in chat rooms) is to use a separate

• Links 7/18/09

  posted to naked capitalism on Sat 18th Jul 09

  Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113 BBCArtistic tendencies linked to 'schizophrenia gene' New Scientist. Um, this is news?Low-wage capitalism : colossus with feet of clay what the new globalized, high-tech imperialism means for the class struggle in the U.S. Fred

• So the bet should be not on deflation outright, but on the fallout from attempts to fight it.

  posted to Libertarian Democrat Point Of View on Mon 15th Jun 09

  TO BE NOTED: From Accrued Interest:"Fed: Deflation? Over my dead body.Many Accrued Interest readers will gafaw at the memory of John Ryding, economist at Bear Stearns from 1991 until the bitter end in 2008. Intelligent man, I'm sure, but also something of the