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.

These bonds are referred to as callable bonds.

Germany needs both China s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.

The spread of the rate between 10 year German and Spanish bonds has reached a new historically high level.

The substantial surge in the interest rate on Greek bonds relative to German bonds in the past few weeks shows that the market now regards such a default as increasingly likely.

Ten year government bonds in Greece and Ireland, for example, now pay nearly a full percentage point above the rate on comparable German bonds, and Italy s rate is almost as high.

Italian savers, for example, still hold a significant volume of foreign assets (including German bonds), and foreign investors still hold a sizeable share of Italian government bonds. But interest rates on longer term Italian government bonds (and Italian private sector borrowing costs) are about 250 basis points higher than those on the German equivalents (this is the risk premium).

But German, French, Spanish, and even Greek bonds all carried roughly the same interest rate, so they were deemed equivalent.

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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.

Barrels, Bushels, and Bonds

Create Growth Linked Bonds

Brady Bonds For the Eurozone

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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The traditional dialects there are Low German, while Standard German is a High German language.

The current differences in the interest rates of euro zone government bonds show that the financial markets regard a break up as a real possibility. Ten year government bonds in Greece and Ireland, for example, now pay nearly a full percentage point above the rate on comparable German bonds, and Italy s rate is almost as high.

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.

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.

Consider investors in Fannie and Freddie bonds.

One solution is green (or climate ) bonds.

Bonds were issued to finance a war.

Moreover, German politicians rarely heed the advice of German economists.

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