Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Where, indeed, are the arrest warrants for Bush and Cheney?

These bonds are referred to as callable bonds.

Aren t bonds safer?

Jamaica, for example, would issue aluminum bonds Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds.

Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds.

Commercial banks loaded with weaker countries government bonds became potentially insolvent.

After several difficult years, the country managed to negotiate an exchange of outstanding bonds for bonds with a considerably lower face value.

More likely would be an IMF organized restructuring of the existing debt, swapping new bonds with lower principal and interest for existing bonds.

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Creditors could be offered these par bonds, or a shorter term bond with a higher coupon but with debt principal marked down. The new bonds could be known as Trichet or Merkel Sarkozy or Honohan bonds whatever works to build consensus.

A German court has now issued arrest warrants for those involved in his abduction.

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By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public s downside risk and ensures that they participate in some of the upside potential.

About 93 of creditors accepted the exchange and received new bonds with a face value that was about one quarter of that of the old bonds.

Following this approach, the country offers to exchange old bonds for new bonds with a lower face value and or lower interest payments and longer maturities.

Expensive government bonds will shift demand to mortgage or corporate bonds, pushing up their prices.

The analogous approach for Greece is to convert its current bonds into GDP linked bonds.

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And when those securities mature, they will be refinanced with new stocks and bonds.

What do you do when it affects your bonds with the people who matter?

With credit markets impaired, the Fed could buy more government bonds or private sector debt.

In the US, the interest rate on government bonds now rises from 1.80 at five years to 2.86 for 10 year bonds and 3.70 for 30 year bonds.

Alternatively, the debt holders can agree to reduce the face value of debt, in exchange for some warrants.

With the government assuming credit risk, mortgages become as safe as government bonds of comparable maturity.

Consider investors in Fannie and Freddie bonds.

One solution is green (or climate ) bonds.

Bonds were issued to finance a war.

So far, policymakers are talking only about exchanging old Greek bonds for cash (in buybacks) or new Greek bonds.

In fact, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explicitly linked Russia s actions in Ukraine with talk of withdrawal from Afghanistan, whether the security situation warrants it or not.

The banks that had loaned them the money replaced the old debt with new bonds at par value, which averaged 50 of the old bonds, and the US government provided some sweeteners.

If rich country central banks can buy long term bonds, then emerging country central banks can buy dollar denominated bonds.

It could issue its own SDR denominated bonds.

We need far more and better catastrophe bonds.

Already, 200 billion of EIB bonds are available.

Family bonds should be based on spontaneous emotions.

Yes, the existence of religious fanatics eager to kill large numbers of innocent American civilians warrants strong measures in response.

According to the Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, on 25 July, arrest warrants were issued for at least 42 journalists in Turkey.

Four Maldivian bloggers and activists living overseas were issued arrest warrants, some of them sent via Twitter, for unspecified crimes.

The arrest warrants lack detail about the nature of the police investigation in which they are said to be implicated.

The Arab world s pain is acutely felt, owing to Turkey s historical, religious, and emotional bonds with these countries.

Only when the importance of the task warrants the effort do we shift gear and deploy the System II heavy artillery.

Although the warrant cannot remain in effect for more than one week, successive warrants from week to week may be issued.

So nothing stopped the banks from selling lemon bonds.