Month: May 2017

Ring Around the Debt

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-future-idUSKBN18Q23I One idea in the paper that did not involve any mutualization of debt was for a private bank to buy a portfolio of euro zone government bonds and issue its own bond backed by that portfolio. Such a Sovereign Bond Backed Security (SBBS) could have senior and junior tranches and provide a higher level …