Booyah Breakdown: Bond With Bonds

Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part Booyah Breakdown series on bonds

First, I'd like to wish all you hard-working, stressed-out, over-exhausted mothers a fabulous, well-deserved Mother's Day. I don't care what anyone says, it is by far the hardest job out there. Taking a company public is a cakewalk compared to making lunch and breakfast at the same time while trying to give an infant a bottle and help your oldest study for a test, all before 7:30 in the morning.

So while you're reinforcing the bonds that tie you with your mother this weekend, you might also want to reinforce your knowledge of bonds. It seems you can't read an economic report these days without having to get through a spattering of bond market data. ...