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SOROS: The European public and their political leaders are not familiar with perpetual bonds or Consols, as I now like to call them, but Consols are well-known in the UK and the US.
Interestingly, a Dutch water board issued a perpetual bond in 1648 to repair a dike.
As its name suggests, the principal amount of a perpetual bond never has to be repaid; only the annual interest payments are due.
Unfortunately, my suggestion for perpetual bonds has been confused with “coronabonds” and this has poisoned the debate.
PS: Are there legal issues associated with the issuance of Consols, as you call perpetual bonds?
Once they are authorized, the EU could go ahead and issue perpetual bonds or Consols.
Perpetual bonds have a tremendous advantage over bonds that have a termination date.
PS: If perpetual bonds are rejected, then what do we do?
Perpetual bonds or Consols are such a measure.
That is why the EU needs to issue perpetual bonds.
As long as I can come up with ideas like perpetual bonds, I don’t give up hope.
I don’t want to be critical of the non-paper published by the Frugal Four countries, because it was written without awareness of the merits of perpetual bonds or Consols.
The Spanish government proposed the idea on April 23 at the virtual meeting of the European Council, but it was dismissed without consideration because perpetual bonds were confused with coronabonds.
Within two and a half years, courtesy of Reagan’s wildly popular tax cuts, the domestic saving rate had plunged to 3.7%, and the current account and the merchandise trade balances swung into perpetual deficit.
Financier George Soros’s proposal for EU perpetual bonds, or Consols, would alleviate this problem, but it would not solve it.
Even when US President Donald Trump’s administration offered Israel the annexation of over a third of the occupied West Bank in its peace plan, ensuring Israel’s perpetual control over the Palestinians and their land, the government coalition couldn’t agree on the offer and did not achieve consensus on the plan.
Perhaps the best analogy is with two runners engaged in a perpetual race around a track.
After all, even many Christian clergy have moved beyond belief in an afterlife of perpetual damnation.
But the current emergency and the threat of a deep recession (or even a depression) undoubtedly calls for bold, “unconventional” fiscal policies supported by other tools, such as the European recovery fund that France and Germany recently proposed, and innovative capital-market instruments like perpetual bonds, which have also been proposed for the EU.
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies,” quipped Lord Palmerston, who twice served as prime minister of Britain at its imperial height.
“Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
But in the Arab world, the displacement of the Palestinians in 1948, and the ongoing experience of Israeli occupation since 1967, was a perpetual rallying cry for successive regimes, most of which capitalized on Palestinian suffering to divert attention from their own failures at home.
To turn this thought experiment into a real policy option, the Eurosystem could extend perpetual, interest-free loans to banks in member countries, on the condition that they pass the money on to consumers under the same terms.
As Karen Rothmyer pointed out eight years ago in the Columbia Journalism Review, foreign media outlets seem beholden to the idea that Africa is in perpetual chaos.
A perpetual problem in US foreign policy is the complexity of the context, which increases the likelihood of unintended consequences.
But that model could generate perpetual conflicts with whomever fills the presidency.
Second, the mini-BOTs will be interest-free, perpetual bonds, without future tax discounts.
The main innovation that Spain will introduce is the EU’s issuance of perpetual bonds.
But perpetual bonds have never before been considered by the EU.
We are currently under attack by a largely unknown novel coronavirus, and perpetual bonds would provide us with the financial resources we need to win that battle.
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