Covered Bonds: An Investing Stalwart Through the Centuries

So-called "covered bonds" are debt securities that are backed by the cash flows from public-sector loans or from real-estate mortgages....

Covered Bonds: The Solution to America's Economic Ills

When it comes to the global financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed, this could well be the ultimate irony: The Wall Street invention...

It Was a Wonderful Life - And Then Came Securitization

Massachusetts Land Court judge Keith C. Long recently ruled that foreclosure sales of two properties with securitized mortgages were invalid, a...

The New Banking Bailout Plan Reconstitutes Some of the Same Ingredients That Touched Off the Financial Crisis

By relying on asset-backed securities, large amounts of leverage and unregulated hedge funds as its key elements, the U.S. Treasury Department's...

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