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The latest thing–well, now this is a crisis--
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a municipal bond crisis which is unfolding.
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The New York state regulators have been trying to get companies
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to subscribe more capital to the monoline insurance companies
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to bolster their capital so that they have more money to pay out;
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that will prevent any more lowering of their ratings.
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The other thing that's happened now is that Warren Buffett said
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he wants to get into the municipal bond insuring business.
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Well, he's just a business person coming in.
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So, there will be new municipal bond insurers appearing
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that will take up slack and we'll be all right
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but the problem is that we may have a crisis for a while.