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The new bonds could be known as Trichet or Merkel/Sarkozy or Honohan bonds – whatever works to build consensus.
If the ECB concludes that panicked investors are threatening the integrity of the payments system by selling a member state’s bonds, then it should intervene, buying up those bonds on the secondary market, ESM agreement or not.
A third channel through which easy money might work is by pushing up the value of assets like stocks, bonds, and houses, making people feel wealthier – and thus more likely to spend.
In truth, however, the big story is the uneerie calm that has engulfed virtually every major asset class, from stocks to bonds.
Joint and several liability for public bonds is imaginable only if countries offering their guarantee – and thus potential access to their taxpayers – can exercise veto power and prevent a partner country from issuing more debt.
Comparing stable and successful democracies like Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland, which “enjoy a strong sense of nationality,” to “countries lacking robust national bonds,” including Afghanistan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Harari comes to the conclusion that nationalism is a necessary component of political stability.
Ten-year yields on British government bonds were at historic lows long before Cameron took office.
Moreover, periphery governments are largely shielded from the increase in the risk premium on long-term bonds, because their central banks continue to purchase their outstanding debts.
A 12.5% tax is levied on capital gains from government bonds, while entrepreneurs risking their own capital to launch new businesses must pay roughly 50% of their start-up costs in taxes.
The risk premium is falling, pushing stock prices higher and lowering yields on long-term bonds.
But when you dug into their argument, it turned out that what they really meant was the second: whenever private-market instability threatened to cause a depression, the government could avert it or produce a rapid recovery simply by purchasing enough bonds for cash to flood the economy with liquidity.
The downside risks to the prices of a wide variety of risky assets (equities, corporate bonds, commodities, housing, and emerging-market asset classes) will remain until there are true signs – towards the end of 2009 – that the global economy may recover in 2010.
But can we really expect the old normal – positive long-term interest rates on government bonds – to return?
Central banks still hold US Treasury bonds because the market for them is the single most liquid financial market in the world.
And Treasury bonds are secure: the federal government has not fallen into arrears on its debt since the disastrous War of 1812.
In theory, as the “fiscal cliff” set for January 1, 2013, approaches, fearful investors should start dumping bonds now.
And while most Greek debt is now owed to official institutions, Japanese government bonds are held in private investment portfolios around the world.
In 2010, the IMF described how Japan could reduce net debt (excluding government bonds held by quasi-government organizations) to a “sustainable” 80% of GDP by 2030, if it turned that year’s primary fiscal deficit of 6.5% of GDP into a 6.4%-of-GDP surplus by 2020, and maintained that surplus throughout the subsequent decade.
Realism would be a better basis for policy, converting some of the BOJ’s holdings of government bonds into a perpetual non-interest-bearing loan to the government.
Despite skepticism regarding accommodation between Islamic and global finance, leading banks are buying Islamic bonds and forming subsidiaries specifically to conduct Islamic finance.
Total national debt, including bonds held by the Fed, stands at 104% of GDP today, compared to only 31% in 1980.
The key will be to finance projects mainly with government bonds, instead of bank credit.
CAMBRIDGE – Will Venezuela default on its foreign bonds?
That is why Venezuelan bonds pay over 11 percentage points more than US Treasuries, which is 12 times more than Mexico, four times more than Nigeria, and double what Bolivia pays.
Last May, when Venezuela made a $5 billion private placement of ten-year bonds with a 6% coupon, it effectively had to give a 40% discount, leaving it with barely $3 billion.
So, should Venezuela default on its foreign bonds?
Bondholders would be wise to exchange their current bonds for longer-dated instruments that would benefit from the upturn.
WASHINGTON, DC – Over the last five years, several low-income countries, such as Rwanda and Honduras, have issued their first-ever bonds to private foreign investors in London and New York.
The bonds have to be repaid in a foreign currency, usually US dollars, in a single “bullet” payment.
World Bank data tracking the evolution of developing-country debt since the 1970s show that the probability of a country falling into debt distress increases nine-fold (to a one-in-five chance) if its repayments are equivalent to more than one-tenth of its exports – a situation that one in three of today’s new issuers could face when their bonds come due.
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