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  • Linton
    Linton Posts: 18,398 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Hung up my suit!
    Cus said:
    The market currently charges someone buying insurance against a UK default over the next 5 years a 0.2% a year premium.  It's not risk free.

    Look up Argentina and their repeated defaults. They also could have just borrowed and printed..but they couldn't really 
    AIUI the Argentinian bonds were denominated in $s and so had to be repaid in $s.  Argentina had insufficient $s and no lender would accept Pesos in payment. Very different to the UK - gilts are denominated in £s  which the UK Government can always repay..
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