Or Sankaty High Yield Partners II (principal: Mitt Romney).

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It offers a crummy yield on its bonds, repays your principal with cheesy, inflated dollars and then has the gall to tax you on your nonexistent real return.

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The most high-profile case has been Lehman principal-protected notes, which were sold as high-yield bonds.

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Investors who bought those bonds for the higher yield wound up eventually losing much or all their principal.

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Combining derivatives with high-yield notes had gotten untold numbers of investors into trouble, especially those who invested in Lehman principal protected notes, which went belly up and left investors holding the bag.

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