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But these interest-rate spreads make the benefits of non-payment greater, so the same shocks can send a country quickly into default.
Moreover, the benefits rise, because the restructuring clauses required for new debt, together with Germany’s highly visible efforts to avoid future government bailouts, raise the interest-rate spreads that weaker countries must pay today.
The spreads for Ireland and Portugal have also been rising, even though by the end of July it seemed that the gigantic €920 billion rescue package put together by the EU, the eurozone countries, the IMF, and the European Central Bank would calm the markets.
Even as open warfare is reduced, stealth warfare intensifies and spreads.
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.
The technology overrides the standard rules of genetic inheritance, ensuring that a particular trait, delivered by humans into an organism’s DNA using advanced gene-editing technology, spreads to all subsequent generations, thereby altering the future of the entire species.
In other words, while all indicators point to a severe economic downturn in Europe, the eurozone’s current interest-rate spreads are provoking a shift to austerity.
Prices of commodities – oil, energy, and minerals – have soared; corporate credit spreads (the difference between the yield of corporate and government bonds) have narrowed dramatically, as government-bond yields have increased sharply; volatility (the “fear gauge”) has fallen; and the dollar has weakened, as demand for safe dollar assets has abated.
Interest spreads for Italian government bonds began to rise, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s administration was alarmed enough to implement an austerity program, and the European Central Bank helped with extra liquidity.
In many places, underground water is considered the property of the owner of the land where the water is extracted, even when a well’s user is tapping an aquifer that spreads across thousands of square miles.
In fact, spreads on Spanish and Italian bonds are higher today than before the ECB’s program was put in place.
If we continue to delay military action, we will have to intervene with greater force when the carnage spreads to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.
Now that interest-rate spreads are increasing again, the pain is considerable, prompting calls for Eurobonds.
The spreads are necessary to keep capital flows within the eurozone in check.
Now, without exchange-rate risk, interest-rate spreads based on debtor countries’ credit ratings are the only remaining defense against excessive capital movements and the resulting external imbalances.
The widening spreads between the interest rate on German eurobonds and some of the other countries’ euro bonds show that global bond markets take this risk seriously.
(Over the course of the euro’s first decade, interest-rate spreads between ten-year government bonds nearly disappeared.)
Yet, as Africa burns, as the AIDS pandemic spreads, and as it becomes clearer that the material means at the disposal of those who ache for a better world do not match their moral aspirations, such choices will become more and more pressing.
Interest-rate spreads on Italian sovereign debt have widened, but not sharply.
This is easy to show: in the United States, the euro zone, and the United Kingdom, spreads between Libor interest rates (at which banks lend to each other) and central bank interest rates – as well as government bonds – are extremely high, and have grown since the crisis began.
These measures will fail to reduce interbank spreads significantly, because monetary policy cannot address the core problems underlying the crisis.
Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.
The European Commission has few powers of its own with which to confront the recession as it spreads throughout the European Union; most powers belong to the European Central Bank.
There is a clash within Islam, which, if the violence in Iraq spreads to neighboring countries, risks causing regional destabilization.
In other words, if enough relatives receive benefits from altruism to outweigh the cost of altruism, then altruism spreads; otherwise, it does not.
Moreover, globalization means that the US capital market’s failure spreads misery around the world.
Just as lies and corruption are contagious, so, too, moral truth and bravery spreads from one champion to another.
LONDON – “They are trying to stop us with the usual blackmail of rising spreads, falling stock markets, and European threats,” wrote Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s League party, on his Facebook page.
But, for Germans, Dutch, and Austrians, interest-rate spreads are not the problem; they are part of the solution, given that they impose discipline that extends beyond European institutions’ new powers.
But, even as the US stock market suffered one of its worst weeks since the financial crisis, the eurozone’s public-debt market has remained relatively stable, with risk spreads – which have usually increased amid market volatility – scarcely changing, even for the peripheral eurozone countries.
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