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Most importantly, it could set off a global financial crisis because right now u.s. debt is considered the safest of safe assets. it is virtually risk-free. every other investment on earth, every other asset is benchmarked against our lack of risk, essentially. so if we prove ourselves to be unreliable and risky borrowers, that sets off this sort of chain reaction in other financial markets, and you can see shock waves of panic throughout the world. i hope we don't get to that point to be clear. it could be devastating if we're worried about a recession this year. >> thank you for spelling tha...

German debt has become massively overbid in cash and repo markets, underscoring the panic over the eurozone’s economic outlook

China’s high household savings rate remains a puzzle, with potential explanations including demographic, policy, and financial causes. This column investigates China’s savings rate using individual income and spending transactions linked to demographic characteristics and financial information on loan applications and credit availability. The authors match bank customers to

A European Debt Agency could greatly help in implementing a new fiscal policy strategy in Europe. This column identifies fluctuations in bond prices over the past 20 years that such an agency could have prevented, and argues that the agency could absorb the entire euro area debt while reducing its size due to less volatile price dynamics. A European Debt Agency could be used

Into safe assets, gold top being up to $940 an ounce so far in the last couple of hours you also see investors piling into fixed income, into bonds. you see yields coming off bond prices as well. everything you're seeing this morning, in terms of activity in the markets, has been to be expected but it's been extreme some, of these movements. we're gonna continue monitoring them throughout the morning, especially as we head to the wall street open. >> i do hope you keep us updated, one quick question about swift. i know sanctions have been threatened for sometime now, what would it mean to pull...