This afternoon we loaded more than 1,000 upcoming muni bond offerings into our online database. The deals total $47 billion spread over all fifty states.  The largest is a $10 billion deal from the State of California. Many states are squeezing Build America Bond (BAB) offerings into the pipeline before the program is set to [...]

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Posted on November 15th, 2010 by Bob Brinker

This 30 minute interview with Jeremy Grantham is one of the smartest I have seen recently. Watch it!

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Posted on November 12th, 2010 by Bob Brinker

The November 2010 edition of the Brinker Fixed Income Advisor is now available online for subscriber access. For the 1-Year period through 10/31/2010, our Model Portfolios have returned: Aggressive Portfolio: + 15.0% Moderate Portfolio: + 11.4% Conservative Portfolio: + 10.4% Tax-Exempt Portfolio: + 7.0%  **tax-exempt return According to the October 2010 edition of The Hulbert [...]

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Posted on November 1st, 2010 by Bob Brinker