True, U.S. stocks have received some modest affection so far in 2018, but the love affair with bonds has hardly missed a beat.
The divorce was a media affair because Bonds had his Swedish spouse sign a prenuptial agreement in which she "waived her right to a share of his present and future earnings" and which was upheld.
There is evidence too that co-ownership of alcohol and tobacco corporations (e.g. Phillip Morris and Miller) has led both sectors to pursue similar policies and public affairs strategies (Bond et al. 2010).
The message had been left by actress Sienna Miller, who was having an affair with the Bond star.
Their dysfunctional affair began after Bond had already been branded the neighborhood "fag" for playing sexual games with Hunter's older brother at Boy Scout camp.
"The bond affair was a scandal waiting to happen," comments a local banker.It comes after a three-month confrontation with students and professors over higher-education reforms.
Mr Maluf, having suggested that he would challenge President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in next year's election, has recently kept his head low, partly because of the bond affair.
Cracking down on the bond affair would send a powerful message to governors and mayors: not just that mutual back-scratching and self-enrichment are unacceptable, but that Brazil will no longer put up with fiscal high-jinks of any kind.
Michael Williams, vice president for legislative affairs for the Bond Market Association, said, "Because our members would weigh the tradeoff between participating in the subprime market or the municipal market, there will be a retraction in the availability of credit".
The fact that PEDs were everywhere in baseball, in every clubhouse, while Bonds became the poster boy for (mostly) white fans to hate, ought to make us look a little more carefully at the Bonds affair.
The Bond Schoolhouse affair, as local historians gently call it, was particularly off limits.
