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(Shiller bonds, in theory, pay more when a country’s economy is growing and less when it is in recession.)
As more of China’s oil imports come to be priced in its domestic currency, foreign suppliers will have more renminbi-denominated accounts with which they can purchase not only Chinese goods and services, but also Chinese government securities and bonds.
Their bonds sell at a discount relative to those of better-managed individual states.
Greek interest rate premiums relative to Germany on ten-year government bonds stood at 8.6% on August 20th, which is even higher than at the end of April when Greece became practically insolvent and European Union-wide rescue measures were prepared.
Moreover, the OFEs’ assets comprised mainly government bonds, which cost about €1.35 billion annually (or 0.3% of GDP) to service, while the OFEs’ high management fees swallowed up any hoped-for market premium.
Moreover, the southern EU countries, instead of leaving prices unchanged, could abandon austerity and issue an ever greater volume of new bonds to stimulate the economy.
Sometimes, they must step in to change expectations, as Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank’s president, did in July 2012, when he announced that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to defend the euro (and the prices of eurozone government bonds).
The day after Spain announced its austerity package, its bonds were downgraded.
Puerto Ricans who are not US government employees do not pay federal income tax, and the island’s bonds are “triple tax-exempt” (free of federal, state, and local taxes).
Low interest rates meant that deficits could be financed by floating bonds.
NEW HAVEN – The prices of long-term government bonds have been running very high in recent years (that is, their yields have been very low).
In the US, the biggest one-year drop in the Global Financial Data extension of Moody's monthly total return index for 30-year corporate bonds (going back to 1857) was 12.5% in the 12 months ending in February 1980.
Global supply networks shifted again, accommodating fragmentation and dispersion on both the supply and demand sides of their structure, a process sometimes called technologically enabled atomization: the division of supply networks into finer and finer parts, breaking the bonds of proximity and the resulting transaction-cost constraints that previously prevailed.
Holders of European government bonds believed that they knew what they had bought.
But German, French, Spanish, and even Greek bonds all carried roughly the same interest rate, so they were deemed equivalent.
Investors now recognize that they did not really understand what these bonds represented – that is, the institutional construct behind the European currency.
It is also what inspired the European Central Bank to launch an asset-purchase program, which has been used to buy Greek and Portuguese government bonds.
And no matter that there is no prohibition on the purchase of government bonds on the secondary market: the Rubicon has been crossed, and the Germans are nervous.
When it comes to ECB purchases of government bonds, no one understands exactly for how long and for what purpose the new weapon is to be used – which reduces its effectiveness.
It is time to accept that those who finance EU governments through purchasing their bonds are entitled to ask inconvenient questions, and to expect clear answers.
Both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s now rate Japanese bonds at only their fourth-highest level.
And, because the European Central Bank has already bought many Italian bonds through its quantitative easing (QE) program, it could not readily intervene further.
While small investors who were mis-sold bonds could be compensated, large, politically powerful ones would not be.
An economic downturn or rising interest rates would thus send public debt soaring again – and Italy cannot count on the ECB to continue buying its bonds indefinitely.
The mere possibility of Italy leaving the eurozone – which would entail the redenomination of €2.2 trillion of Italian government bonds in devalued lira – could spark financial panic.
If, for some reason, financial markets and/or China’s central bank were suddenly to reject US Treasury bonds, interest rates would soar, sending the American economy into recession.
Fortunately for the US, the immediate adverse impact on borrowing costs would be alleviated, if not nullified, by investors’ lack of readily available alternatives to US government bonds, as well as a Federal Reserve that has been buying large volumes of US Treasuries.
And, while no one can be certain about where the limits lie, there are both theoretical and operational bounds to how many government bonds can (and should) be placed on the balance sheet of a modern, well-functioning central bank.
Indeed, despite massive imbalances and huge disparities in the level of private and public debt across the euro area, interest-rate spreads on government bonds disappeared in the run-up to the crisis.
Japan was able to defeat Russia in 1905 only after a Jewish banker in New York, Jacob Schiff, helped Japan by floating bonds.
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