11.   A store in Buenos Aires offering discounted jeans and also accepts patacones, low yield bonds paid to provincial employees.

12.   All Canadian government bonds now pay less than their U.S. equivalents.

13.   All Canadian government bonds now pay lower rates of interest than those in the U.S.

14.   But if the bond is paying less than prevailing interest rates, investors will typically put their money elsewhere, and the price of the bond sinks.

15.   But zero-coupon bonds do not pay interest.

16.   Canadian bonds pay higher yields than U.S. bonds.

17.   Coupon bonds pay interest periodically at a fixed rate until maturity.

18.   Disappearing debt holdings are especially troublesome to insurance companies, who need bonds paying steady interest income to fund their long term liabilities.

19.   Dual-currency bonds pay interest in yen, while the principal is denominated in dollars.

20.   For one thing, government bonds pay low interest rates today.