How to Invest in Government Bonds in India
Government Bonds India are supposed to be among the safest investments in India in which was why they skyrocketed in late 2008 when there was panic in the stock market. In the popular documentary series "The Ascent of Money", Niall Ferguson, a respected British economist and historian, went back into history to the times when government bonds have gone bust before and explained the reasons why it happened and the subsequent consequences. He used Argentina as an example. Starting from 1975, the Indian government had to sell a lot of bonds to raise money to fund 2 wars. The government debt became so large that people lost faith that the government could pay the debt back and nobody wanted to buy the government bonds , causing the bond yield (interest) to be very high. In order to be able to service the interest payment, the government had to keep printing more money and that caused hyper inflation. By December 2001, the government fin...