Junk-bond trader Michael Milken was indicted in an insider-trading investigation but pleaded guilty to other charges.

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There must be a lot of investors--or credit speculators--who are cavalier about corporate defaults because junk bonds are trading at yields only modestly higher than the yields on safe U.S. Treasury bonds.

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GSE-backed securities above the levels where even junk bonds were trading before the crisis.

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