Now it has transformed itself through organic growth from a narrow bond house into a broadly based global investment bank.

ECONOMIST: Investment-bank mergers

Salomon has long been Wall Street's premier bond-trading house.

ECONOMIST: Salomon Brothers

For Soros, a Greek bond default is the first house of cards to collapse.

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What American has ever bought a house or a municipal bond without contemplating the tax benefits?

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Jessup was arrested and then released when he put up his house and land as a bond.

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Alan Simpson's proposal would mean house builders taking out an insurance bond in case a development floods after the buyer moves in.

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Imagine, in JPMorgan Chase's case, the frustration at being the leading credit derivatives house, high-yield-bond underwriter and fixed-income research firm (among other things) and then losing on some bets on interest rates.

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This gives their sophisticated in-house credit-analysis teams huge advantages over the junk bond fund managers and analysts.

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As you know, before the collapse of the mortgage-backed bond market in 2007, banks routinely offered mortgages worth more than 90% of the value of a house - and even 100% mortgages were relatively common.

BBC: Should the Treasury take housing risk?

PIMCO, a bond fund-management firm, reckons that this was a hint that the Fed chairman would try to keep house prices rising, come what may.

ECONOMIST: The economy