Talk:Yield (finance)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of Business and Economics WikiProject. |
| Start | rated as start-Class on the assessment scale |
| Top | rated as top-importance on the assessment scale |
[edit] comment by anon feb 2004
this page has some history related to pseudonyms or authors, and was restored out of some status. the information on the main page qualifies as valid encyclopedic knowledge, and the holder of the article invited visitors to restore articles they found there. the text below is well-intended, imao, but is not constructed to a standard to qualify as neutral, informative and of general interest. the ideas represented there-in are certainly not idiosyncratic to the author, but the counterpoint approach outweighs the actual descriptive. one is left to wonder where the contrast with ecological yeild is a "key issue". key issues for investors would more likely be the relative value of fixed yeild instruments vis-a-vis other investments. Indeed, the article as balanced appeared as a vehicle for introducing the very valid concept of ecological yeild. But the version failed to first establish the role of financial yeilds in meta-economics before introducing more recently identified concepts of ecological yeild in relation to economics. a link to other 'yeild' topics would at least be appropriate, and if anybody knows anything specific about how concepts of environmental yeild are being applied in international economic discussions, and how dept-instrument yeild is relevant to global debt, this vestigial copy might jog some ideas:
Economics is very concerned with yields and related money supply questions. A key issue is the contrast with ecological yield and the monetary reform which some advocate to ensure that the requirement to repay global debt does not reduce the Earth's carrying capacity or carbon sink capacity. If the payments of economic yield to holders of global debt exceed that which can be borne by the natural renewal of the Earth, it's current solar income for instance, that is an energy subsidy which typically comes from fossil fuel and other non-renewable resource. Full cost accounting for these vs renewable resources may put hard limits on the amount of total yield that can be guaranteed to holders of debt instruments.
In practice, this is an issue with money supply and monetary policy and does not affect each individual holder of a bond or other debt, except insofar as it may lead from time to time to odious debt writeoffs or a major credit crisis. These are suprisingly common in a business cycle anyway.
Because of restrictions on who can issue debt instruments in a highly regulatedbond markets, the most egregious frauds(issuing junk bonds with a promise to tear down a rainforest to pay them back) do not usually occur in more economically developed nations. They are however still quite common in Brazil and other emerging markets.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.197.159.30 (talk • contribs) 20:46, February 9, 2004 (UTC)
