The spread of inflation indexed bonds serves as a historical precedent.

Sure, some might argue that inflation indexed bonds offer a better and more direct inflation hedge than gold.

Finland was the first to issue national inflation indexed bonds, in 1946, in response to massive wartime price growth.

In the US and the UK, yields on intermediate term (5 year) inflation indexed bonds are already actually negative this year.

In fact, there was a temporary upward spike in real long term interest rates during the financial crisis in countries with indexed bonds.

The supposed threat posed by government debt levels hasn t hurt these markets, at least in the relatively few countries that have inflation indexed bonds.

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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.

Indexed units of account are not a new idea

These bonds are referred to as callable bonds.

It states that for every indexed family formula_1 of nonempty sets there exists an indexed family formula_2 of elements such that formula_3 for every formula_4.

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.

During the Great Depression, many debt contracts were indexed to gold.

The content is indexed in a database file, known as Index.dat.

Strings can be indexed from either the right or the left.

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The inflation indexed bond markets were not well developed in the 1980 s.

Brady Bonds For the Eurozone

Sure, some might argue that inflation indexed bonds offer a better and more direct inflation hedge than gold. But gold bugs are right to worry about whether the government will honor its commitments under more extreme circumstances.

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.

Hydrogen bonds in polymers Many polymers are strengthened by hydrogen bonds in their main chains.

The OECD has indexed how easy it is to fire an employee in member countries.

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.

As a side benefit, the tax system would be automatically, fully, and transparently indexed to inflation.

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.

Yes, inflation is an unfair way of effectively writing down all non indexed debts in the economy.

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.

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

So nothing stopped the banks from selling lemon bonds.

The earnings on its 10 year bonds are 28.45 .

They could merely create an indexed unit of account to replace currency for measuring economic quantities and defining prices.

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

In fact, as Carmen Reinhart and I discuss in our recent book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different, cash strapped governments will often forcibly convert indexed debt to non indexed debt, precisely so that its value might be inflated away.

For example, standardizing regulations relating to covered bonds, green bonds, and cross border investment through real estate trusts could encourage more long term investment.