How A Plan To Help Stockton, Calif., Pay Pensions Backfired

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, New York Times
Mon, 09/03/2012 - 11:19pm

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A bond sale that was intended to help Stockton, Calif., reduce a shortfall in pension money wound up making the problem worse.

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