bonds

Right now, the scheme is to drive inflation which pours newly printed money into gov't coffers as that's how new money makes it into the economy: through gov't bonds.

Yes, it's been my experience that those people share closer personal bonds and have a greater sense of community too.

German EUR bonds have the second lowest yields globally, with Switzerland being the leader.

As with any country monetizing debt, they auction bonds to the highest bidder.

I guess you could invest in short term bonds or other investments, but it isn't going to be risk free then.

This happens not (only) because it is safer to keep piles of German bonds than piles of EUR, but because of the unorthodox ECB monetary policy.

I think the biggest voice to say there is a debt problem, at least in high yield and junk bonds, is Carl Icahn.

What made the record of the big shots so much worse was that it was the people's money they stole, in the form of government bonds and land.

But now with the advent of structured product and ETFs, a lot of bonds are behaving more like publicly traded equity and being speculated upon, thus increasing their volatility.

Invest it (compound interest: shares/bonds/property/etc) b.

Furthermore, during a recession, certain asset prices (safe haven assets like perhaps gold, government bonds, the strength of the USD) may increase substantially as people seek safety and cash flows into these assets.

> Also, if governments are serious about honoring pensions, they should be accounted for on par with their bonds The crucial distinction is that re-negging on bonds affects your finances going forward (increases borrowing costs), while re-negging on pensions does not.

There are appeals in the Tokyo metro to buy Japanese bonds as a "patriotic duty", which is a form of voluntary further taxation (and just look at who owns the majority of JGBs).

For example, if China sends an excess of resources to "the US", and in return "the US" gives China shares or bonds issued by US companies, then the extra resources are presumably used by these companies in a productive way.

It seems your post should have read: "That figure understates the severity of the problem because some of the liabilities are promised by states and localities that are far more constrained in their ability to get out of paying." Also, if governments are serious about honoring pensions, they should be accounted for on par with their bonds.