Bond markets show the world is flirting with disaster
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/03/bond-markets-show-the-world-is-flirting-with-disaster/
With G7 public debt at an all-time high, governments must curtail spending to balance books.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/03/bond-markets-show-the-world-is-flirting-with-disaster/
With G7 public debt at an all-time high, governments must curtail spending to balance books.
The bond doom-mongers have got at least one thing right
https://www.ft.com/content/4edbbd55-a5da-4b7c-9158-0fa397501513
The big global bond market crisis is just around the corner and always will be. In the end, what tends to happen is that governments pony up the higher borrowing costs, investors agree to buy without a gun to their head, and peace is restored, at a cost to future generations. But be in no doubt: the pressure is building.
https://www.ft.com/content/4edbbd55-a5da-4b7c-9158-0fa397501513
The big global bond market crisis is just around the corner and always will be. In the end, what tends to happen is that governments pony up the higher borrowing costs, investors agree to buy without a gun to their head, and peace is restored, at a cost to future generations. But be in no doubt: the pressure is building.
Why France’s Financial Woes Are Pushing Its Government to the Brink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/business/france-government-collapse-economy.html
The French prime minister has proposed drastic spending cuts and tax increases to shore up the country’s accounts, but his plan could backfire.
How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/04/how-europes-hard-right-threatens-the-economy
At best, the continent should expect stagnation, at worst a bond-market rout.
How the West Got Hooked on Economic Support
https://www.ft.com/content/62b44835-1ce6-461e-9d8b-ba4b728c4e9e
Crisis firefighting has given way to a dependence on government and central banks
Related:
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/09/04/the-hard-rights-plans-for-europes-economy
https://www.ft.com/content/62b44835-1ce6-461e-9d8b-ba4b728c4e9e
Crisis firefighting has given way to a dependence on government and central banks
Related:
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/09/04/the-hard-rights-plans-for-europes-economy