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To: KyrosL who wrote (6)	12/16/2008 4:00:11 PM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 161

Those look like nice opportunities. Not so horrendously leveraged like PMQ, for example. One concern is the long duration and the potential for future inflation. I've thought about hedging that risk by buying TBT - the short Treasury proshares fund. I've just been reviewing my tax situation too - I'm one of the lucky ones with taxable gains. I wonder if muni's are weak partially because there are fewer people with gains around. Some of those who formerly needed the tax free income no longer need to avoid taxable income. Thanks for posting.

To: KyrosL who wrote (6)	12/19/2008 1:04:54 PM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 161

KTF's portfolio manager bought 6K shares. Pretty unusual for an insider of these CEFs. sec.gov