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$130 billion of retail and institutional investor money is still being held in auction rate securities over two years after the $330 billion auction rate market failed and froze, according to Daisy Maxey in her Wall Street Journal article, “Still Frozen After All These Years.” But just as the Paul Simon song modulates from gloom into glee at the line, “But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers’,” there may be a way out for ARS holders who are ineligible for the buy-backs some firms have agreed to as a result of their settlements with regulators.