The commercial banks could sell Treasury bills and longer term bonds to the Fed, receive reserves in exchange, and earn a small but very safe return on those reserves.

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.

Barrels, Bushels, and Bonds

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.

Ban the Common Bond

Between 1943 and 1945, State Treasury Bills for 1000 and 5000 leva were issued.

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.

Brady Bonds For the Eurozone

The government forcibly rescheduled the public debt holdings of these funds, known locally as AFJP.

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

Third, the technical features of the market will ensure strong demand for US Treasury bills.

Aren t bonds safer?

The EFSF buys the bonds of the countries which find it difficult to finance themselves in the marketplace (for example, Ireland) and issues bonds that are AAA rated.

For instance, the central banks of the US, Europe, Japan, and Britain could accept Brazilian paper at their discount windows.

Bonds were issued to finance a war.

It created so called Central Bank Bills, which commercial banks are supposed to buy voluntarily.

And the European Central Bank has begun to buy government bonds, including those of Greece, at prices well above those that would prevail in a free market.

A very large share of these are US treasury bonds and mortgages.

We need far more and better catastrophe 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.

Create Growth Linked Bonds

These bonds are referred to as callable bonds.

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

This basket should include, at the very least, preferred shares and bonds.

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.

Upon the issue of such an ECB bond, the ECB would simultaneously open a debit account for the member state on whose behalf it issued the bond.

So nothing stopped the banks from selling lemon bonds.

The decision to buy Greek bonds directly was not unanimous.

Indeed, demand is outstripping supply.

Their net foreign earnings must be invested in foreign countries stocks and bonds.

Now that the storm has hit, the fragile bonds of European solidarity are being tested.

The proceeds were then invested in Greek government bonds and loans to Greek companies.

But markets would happily gorge on bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the eurozone.

Who wants to build up debt if there might be a financial crisis around the corner? Better to keep socking away US Treasury bills, even if the return is far lower than on most other investments.

Better to keep socking away US Treasury bills, even if the return is far lower than on most other investments.

A pan European bond would also have serious political repercussions.

Commodity bonds may offer a neat way to circumvent these risks.

During Japan s lost decade, the Bank of Japan mostly bought Japanese government bonds, whereas the Fed is trying to reopen secondary markets for securitized private lending (which in the US is as important as bank lending), buying mortgage backed securities and consumer and business loans, as well as U.S. Treasury bonds.

The Bank of England is buying UK government bonds ( gilts ).

How much money do you plan to invest in government bonds?

They invested, and still invest, their budgetary surpluses worldwide in government bonds and state owned enterprises.

In addition, state bonds are not treated as equals, and the markets penalize profligate states.

Portugal and Ireland have recently seen their bonds downgraded to junk status.

As a result, bringing down yields on government, corporate, and asset backed bonds has less impact.