Italy and Greece, in particular, face serious debt issues amid financial market concerns about the possibility of default or their leaving the euro zone.

The bond channel doesn t work when bond yields are already low and the credit channel doesn t work when banks hoard liquidity and velocity collapses.

At this point, inflationary expectations will increase, long term government bond yields will rise, and the recovery will be crowded out.

How much safer, however, depends upon the returns on the pool of bonds that compose the CDO.

Bond yields in southern Europe were rising, and a pervasive sense of apprehension and fear cloaked governments in European capitals.

If interest rates were lowered beyond a certain point, the dollar would come under renewed pressure and long term bonds would actually go up in yield.

Long term inflation indexed bond yields have fallen to around 1 a year, or less, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the eurozone.

Investors subsequent efforts to price in the risk of a eurozone breakup not the volume of sovereign debt caused bond yields to spike.

There is no other way to keep bond yields under control and banks functioning, and there is no ironclad guarantee that the reform programs needed to do the job will be approved.

Euro accession and bull market convergence trades pushed bond yields in these countries toward the level of German bunds, with the ensuing credit boom supporting excessive consumption growth.

Real estate rental yields and stock market payouts are low, and real estate and stock prices may well fall as much as or more than bond prices if interest rates spike.

At some point, the yields on bonds and mortgages will be high enough that investors appetite for yield will balance their fear of exchange rate depreciation.

Most telling is that Britain, which retained control of its currency, enjoys the lowest yields in its history, while the risk premium on Spanish bonds is at a new high.

While that could be contractionary, the gain in fiscal policy credibility might prevent a damaging spike in long term government bond yields.

A negative oil shock, together with rising government bond yields could clip the recovery s wings and lead to a significant further downturn in asset prices and in the real economy.

Privatization advocates insist, however, that investments in stocks would yield sufficiently higher returns to provide individuals the same retirement income as before, with the surplus used to fill the gap.

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Indeed, the stock market is an important component of any modern economy. But we should not make plans that rely on high returns, as many (including some governments) appear to be doing.

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When that happens, inflationary expectations will mount, long term government bond yields will rise, mortgage rates and private market rates will increase, and one would end up with stagflation (inflation and recession).

The relatively low interest rates on both short term and long term bonds are now causing both individual investors and institutional fund managers to assume duration risk and credit quality risk in the hope of achieving higher returns.

If the dollar is likely to fall against the euro over the next several years, investments in euro denominated bonds issued by the German or French governments may provide higher safe returns.

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Likewise, an IMF program for Ireland which seems increasingly likely will not bring down domestic bond yields and reopen credit markets to any kind of Irish borrower.

Bond lending involves diversified groups of bond holders, including domestic residents, and can be issued under different jurisdictions.

Buying time for reform to work requires socialization of short term risk. There is no other way to keep bond yields under control and banks functioning, and there is no ironclad guarantee that the reform programs needed to do the job will be approved.

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The new bonds, other than those governed by Argentine law, will include Collective Action Clauses (CACs).

Global stock markets have, overall, reached new highs. And credit markets show low spreads, while long term bond yields have fallen in most advanced economies.

Once spare capacity vanished and commercial inventories declined to critical levels relative to estimated future demand, oil prices started to break record after record.

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Indeed, our record exceeded that of most developing countries.

And yet negative bonds yields are also occurring in countries and regions where the currency is depreciating and likely to depreciate further, including Germany, other parts of the eurozone core, and Japan. So, why are investors holding such assets?

Eventually, large monetized fiscal deficits will lead to a fiscal train wreck and or a rise in inflation expectations that could sharply increase long term government bond yields and crowd out a tentative and so far fragile economic recovery.

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