Country Quote by Steve Eisman

Governments, many of them European, are actually offering - and investors are buying - bonds that are worth less at the end of five…

— Neil Macdonald

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like…

— Marc Faber

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds…

— George Soros

A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this…

— Austan Goolsbee

Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.

— Charles L. Evans

At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then…

— Luke Johnson

If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more…

— Mohamed El-Erian

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of…

— Bill Gross

It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but…

— Thomas A. Edison

It's important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every…

— Lawrence Summers

This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the euro was…

— George Soros