Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market: How to Profit from the Current Municipal Credit Crisis and Earn Attractive Tax-Exempt Interest Income

Notes

1. From Bloomberg data, as filtered by the author.

2. In February 2010, Fiddler’s Creek, LLC, the developer of a master-planned community in Naples, Florida, filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11. Upon completion the project was to have 100 communities situated on nearly 4,000 acres. The case was filed in U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court, Middle District Florida (Fort Meyers), case number 10-03846.

aRichard Larkin of Herbert J. Sims contributed the section on tobacco settlement bonds. Shannan Wilson of Alprion Capital contributed the section on land-secured bonds.