The prisoner asked to be released early.

Slip of the tongue.

It was a slip of the tongue.

Perhaps this was a slip of the presidential tongue.

Like Budanov, she applied for early release from prison in 2008.

Indeed, China frets over the safety of the US Treasury bonds that it holds.

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Bond markets are easily lulled.

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The company said the decision to buy out the homes was part of a long term strategy to create a greenbelt around the plant, and was not related to health concerns.

But a faux pas of this kind, if that is what it was, reflects a mentality that places power over law.

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I have been thinking about the bond market for a long time.

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Securities laws require that issuers of corporate bonds spell out all possible risks.

The SEC previously brought a case against Tesla chief executive Elon Musk for his announcement posted on Twitter of a possible buyout of the company.

He would always say we did this one for the money which is one of those kind of half truths...

Bond market vigilantes already have taken aim at Greece, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Iceland, pushing government bond yields higher.

In 2002, domestic share issues raised 8.9bn, while banks provided twenty times that amount.

The corporate debt market remains tiny.

The issue centres on the sale of mortgage securities.

But a decision to purchase sovereign bonds would also need to build on and factor in the institutional specificities of the euro area, including the limits set by the EU Treaty.

Cat bonds have been growing in importance in recent years.

The earnings on its 10 year bonds are 28.45 .

For some time now, Greek ten year government bond yields have been about 300 basis points above German yields.

And just before the clause entered Norwegian law, the King of Denmark had granted citizenship to Jews in his realm.

Thus, if a financial firm appears to have difficulties, its bondholders cannot stage a run on its assets and how these bondholders fare cannot be expected to trigger runs by bondholders in other companies.

The new thinking should put people first, and banks shareholders and bondholders second.

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

Pertama, obligasi pemerintah negara negara Eurozone harus memuat klausa yang memudahkan bail in bagi pemegang obligasi.

The problem was not a lack of confidence that the Spanish government would fulfill its promises, but too much confidence that it would, and that this would reduce growth and increase unemployment from its already intolerable level of 20 .

France may elect a president who opposes the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.

The day after Spain announced its austerity package, its bonds were downgraded.

They are supposed to provide insurance against default to bondholders.

The bond markets will demand quick and effective action.

Today, harmonized standards do not exist.

Since the Argentine crisis, most new bonds have been issued with collective action clauses (CACs), under which bondholders are obliged to accept restructuring if a specified share (usually around 70 ) agree to it.

The euro zone s bond and bill markets would complement but not replace individual states existing government bond markets.

European bond markets are again delivering a chilling message to global policymakers.

Drastic action is needed to prevent European bond markets from drying up. Trichet has said repeatedly that current ECB interventions do not target interest rates.

But this is precisely because of the lemon effect.

Indeed, the bond market channel is unlikely to boost growth.

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

Surprisingly, the bond market still seems almost oblivious to this risk.