This week on FT Alphaville,
- We found $775bn of missing muni bonds.
- We looked at the holy grail of active ETFs.
- How the Fed’s efforts to sell off Maiden Lane’s MBS is pushing down their prices.
- Confidence and virtual currencies.
- How Jean-Claude Trichet resembles a US Founding Father.
- The outlook is not good for US corporate profits.
- We made the case for liberalising US immigration policy.
- We continued with our Sino-Forest coverage: the case for the defence and for the prosecution. See also the Muddy Waters track record.
- We dug into the nat gas flash crash mystery.
- It’s getting hard to keep track of Pimco’s US debt position.
- Guess which sovereigns have broken out of debtor’s prison and are back in the bond markets.