National risk premia would then disappear, and German savers would have no problem investing their savings in the eurozone s periphery, knowing that the German government would ultimately underwrite these countries government bonds.

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

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.

When the yield on German government bonds falls to 2 , which is negative in real terms, German savers must redouble their efforts to achieve a certain target for retirement income.

For example, a German investor would consider United States bonds to have more currency risk than German bonds (since the dollar may go down relative to the euro) similarly, a United States investor would consider German bonds to have more currency risk than United States bonds (since the euro may go down relative to the dollar).

Despite these scary results, the interest rate spread for Italian government bonds relative to German bunds has increased by only 40 basis points since the election.

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

Interest rates on government bonds were racing upward.

Government bonds, on the other hand, have no covenants.

The government bonds of peripheral eurozone countries thus became toxic.

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

To a large extent, this collateral consisted of government bonds.

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.

Later, governments in Europe started issuing perpetual bonds (bonds with no maturity date) to fund wars and other government spending.

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.

The scholars urge the German government to

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

For example, individual countries government bonds could be replaced by Eurobonds.

Commercial banks loaded with weaker countries government bonds became potentially insolvent.

The dam is being funded by government bonds and private donations.

With the government assuming credit risk, mortgages become as safe as government bonds of comparable maturity.

In January 1927, when the government proposed to redeem these bonds, rumor spread that the banks holding these bonds would go bankrupt.

A major concern of the German Constitutional Court is the similarity between the ESM s Secondary Market Support Facility (SMSF) and the ECB s OMT program, both of which imply the purchase of government bonds in secondary markets.

Nevertheless, the market for Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) has so far remained stable.

Adding cocos to government bonds will require solving a host of technical problems.

Holders of European government bonds believed that they knew what they had bought.

The Federal Reserve, in particular, has bought huge quantities of US government bonds.

But this is because government bonds are purchased mostly by domestic organizations and households.

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

The old government bonds in this case would be converted at a reduced rate into replacement bonds, which are partly guaranteed (at 80 ) by the participating states.

As such, it is responsible for planning and implementing the German space programme on behalf of the German federal government.

Each month, China sold a net sum of about 7 billion in US government bonds.

Massive purchases of government bonds by the ECB would be the worst type of bailout.

European governments are not in a position to instruct the ECB to purchase government bonds.

With credit markets impaired, the Fed could buy more government bonds or private sector debt.

The real test for the German government is the labor market.

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.

Because China s government does not owe much debt to the public, the PBC sold out its holdings of government bonds in 2005.

QE2, in which the Fed bought long term government bonds, did not have a discernible effect on long term government interest rates.

It is not surprising that bonds issued by the European Financial Stability Facility (the eurozone s rescue fund) are trading at a substantial premium over German debt.

When the euro was introduced, the authorities actually declared member states government bonds to be riskless.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

So, to meet the budget shortfall, a staggering 44.3 trillion in government bonds will be issued.

The government was required to set up German language public schools in those districts that had been German territory before the war.

So what more did the German government need to endorse the intervention?