Who Really Pays for Government Debt
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Who Really Pays for Government Debt? — Inflation, Interest Rates and the Bond Market
A mortgage bill is connected to a much larger system. This documentary traces government borrowing through Treasury and gilt auctions, bond prices and yields, inflation, central banks, mortgages, taxes, public services and the choices passed between generations. It explains who receives the interest, who bears the cost, and why the purpose and structure of debt matter as much as its size.
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Chapters
- The mortgage payment that starts the story
- What a government deficit actually is
- Debt is not the deficit
- Why governments borrow
- Who lends to the state
- Treasuries, gilts and different promises
- How a bond auction works
- The secondary market
- Why bond prices and yields move in opposite directions
- What the government actually repays
- How higher yields reach new borrowing
- Refinancing and the maturity wall
- Inflation, debtor relief and household pain
- Index-linked gilts and TIPS
- What central banks change
- Quantitative easing
- Quantitative tightening and central-bank losses
- From gilt yields to mortgage rates
- Rents, firms and the cost of living
- Debt interest and public services
- Taxes, spending cuts and financial repression
- Growth, productivity and the debt ratio
- Currency issuers, default and confidence
- The United States and the dollar system
- Britain, inflation exposure and fiscal rules
- Who pays, and what choices remain?