Find a recent (let's say within the last three months) practical article from the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, New York Times, or Washington Post that describes a real-world example of a specific financial institution or financial market that reinforces one or more concepts covered in this chapter. Make sure these are actual articles not just Wikipedia or Investopedia type entries. You have access to most major business publications via ProQuest which can be accessed through the Lamar library's database.

In your post include:

• a summary of the article including an explanation of how it is related to the class material and why you find it interesting and relevant.
• a link to the article that is publicly accessible or an attached file containing the article.

Potential keywords include federal agency bonds, stripped Treasury bonds, inflation-indexed Treasury bonds, municipal bond risk, private placement bonds, junk bonds, high-yield bonds, structured note, convertible bonds, callable bonds. Treasury bond auctions, U.S. savings bonds