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Cate Long, Municipal Bonds Expert - #PreMarket Prep for Febraury 5, 2015

Listen to the daily broadcast live: http://premarket.benzinga.com/pre-market-show/ Cate Long writes about the fixed income markets including municipal bonds. She has worked for a number of years with industry standards organizations, regulators and Congress to help craft a more transparent and fair framework for investors to participate in the fixed income markets.

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Cate Long, Municipal Bonds Blogger - #PreMarket Prep for December 11, 2014

Listen to the daily broadcast live: http://premarket.benzinga.com/pre-market-show/ Cate Long writes about the fixed income markets including municipal bonds. She has worked for a number of years with industry standards organizations, regulators and Congress to help craft a more transparent and fair framework for investors to participate in the fixed income markets.

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Am I To Be Denied The Smack Of Stern Discipline In The Pursuit Of Feminine Financial Journalism Excellence, Michael Ballinger?

July 20, 1834 London

Mr. Michael Ballinger Publisher Ballinger Finishing School for Young Ladies with Financial Journalism Aspirations 27th Floor One State Street Plaza New York, New York 10004 The United States of America

My Most Esteemed Purveyor of Trivialities Slightly Relevant to Financial Events of Great Moment:

Please do regard this note as my formal application for entrance to the Ballinger Finishing School for Young Ladies with Financial Journalism Aspirations--I am reliably informed that use of the institution's informal title "The Bond Buyer" is considered in poor taste as actual buyers of bonds hold no positions of authority in the organisation.

After careful study of the many facets--complex, byzantine, or merely trivial--of feminine financial journalism it is quite obvious that I am uniquely suited to the affectation--for surely the likes of Virginia Woolf should never permit us the self-deception of calling it an "occupation." And who better than the bi-polar and suicidal Woolf might have been equipped to render astute counsel on the subject?

Several particular character traits of mine have the general tendency to commend to me the pursuit of feminine financial journalism--

After years of observation I have built a deep understanding of the subtle distinctions between:

An "anonymous source," a noble and precious title imbued with a cornucopia of the most virtuous qualities and one to be protected at all costs from the harsh and blinding gaze of mindless public scrutiny or the ravages of "fact checking" by "third parties" who may wish to deliver to knavery the essential truth and goodness that is the essence of the precious and delicate narrative woven by the financial journalist, and...

An "anonymous source" a cowardly, honourless, and craven example of the worst sort of weaver of falsehoods, and one which must be subjected to the purifying and intensely brilliant light of public scrutiny and exposed to the general population at all costs so as to deliver to knavery the corrupt and inaccurate narratives woven by those pretenders to financial journalism not affiliated with the Ballinger Finishing School for Young Ladies with Financial Journalism Aspirations.

I have also recently discovered that the good former anonymous source (for instance, the astute fixed income commentator and onetime Bond Buyer source "Bond Girl") can transmute, as if by divine manipulation, into the latter evil anonymous source (for instance, the hateful, error-prone, lie spreading subject of Bond Buyer investigation "Bond Girl") at the whim of the intrepid financial journalist.

I have taken to heart the example of intrepid and honourable feminine financial journalist Cate Long, a Class of '32 alumni of the Reuters School for Otherwise Listless Ladies of Advancing Age and/or Experience, whose woven narrative was often unraveled by anonymous source "Bond Girl." The heartless persecution of Long demonstrates without doubt the importance of a firm hand when dealing with anonymous sources once they transform and become anonymous sources.

I have also discovered that anonymous sources, and the pursuit of converting them into "outed sources," is highly valuable during those languid summer weeks when one has exhausted material for critical financial news stories covering the activities of the wives of financiers in the South of France, or The Hamptons, or during the winter months when the snow in St. Moritz is falling too heavily.

Several times in the pursuit of my desired affectation I have received counsel to consider attending the Michael Bloomberg Academy for Young Ladies of at least Average Attractiveness but Possessed of No Particular Skills or Talents Whatsoever. Often the intrepid and valiant efforts of the Michael Bloomberg Academy for Young Ladies of at least Average Attractiveness but Possessed of No Particular Skills or Talents Whatsoever alumni Michelle Kaske (Class of 2015) are cited as shining examples of the sort of affectation arc I should aspire to--what with her amazing rise from financial journalist at the New York Post to Municipal Bond and Public-Finance Reporter.

But I must admit that other finishing institutions leave me uninspired. Who of them can claim a headmaster such as yourself, who rode narrative weaving positions during the salad days of monoline insurers MBIA and CIFG to eventually head an institution as esteemed as the Ballinger Finishing School for Young Ladies with Financial Journalism Aspirations?

I say to you now that I shall never waver from my undying efforts to use anonymous sources to expose the anonymous sources of the alumni of those other institutions, so as to be the first to reveal the Hamptons property line dispute between the wives of the men of the middle management corps of institutions of great financial moment. Until I am afforded that opportunity, I beg to remain,

Available In Every Sense To The Whims Of The Stern And Fair Discipline That I Am Certain You Personally Infuse Into The Ballinger Finishing School For Young Ladies With Financial Journalism Aspirations.

Charlotte Brontë, CFA