Talk:Gilt-edged securities

message: This title violates WP:NAME, which normally requires singulars. It should probably be moved to something like Gilt (bond). Hairy Dude (talk) 17:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: {Ethymology seems to be a weirdly but commonly recognized misspelling of etymology.  When my edit of the following unattributed entry heading caused a Wikipedia programming error.}--Wikidity (talk) 19:56, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gilt ethymology 

message: I thought Gilt had an etymological history as in Germanic languages such as old English gilt means both money (German: geldt), DEBT  AND guilt. Guilt also means debt still in Scandinavian (and Germanic). As in being guilty of having to pay back.<BR>--unidentified contributor & date
'Gilt' originally referred to valuable documents which were expected to be kept for a long time, and which usually had gold applied to the edges to preserve the interior(written surfaces) of a folio or stack from oxidation and other deterioration, which could eventually make the document unreadable.<BR>--Wikidity (talk) 19:46, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gilt etymology 

message: Isn't a gilt a bond you buy for which the bearer will be paid a sum of money of interest for a set period of time after which the initial purchase price is refunded or if it's not, please explain because the article doesn't actually say this but it does say some things about bi-annual payments, interest rates and maturity... ~ R.T.G 13:16, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And if that was complicated, let's say the governemnt offers me 1 gilt for £100 at %10 for 10 years and I snap it up. Is that a possible gilt and if so, what exactly goes on then? ~ R.T.G 13:19, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mature Gilt 

message: Reported on the BBC "Today"  radio program (date 10/05/2012), by Simon Jack The bank of England now owns a third of all government debt due to it's quantitative easing program of buying Gilts. So one government entity owns a third of the country's government debt. This is surely worthy of a mention in the main page. The snake eating it's own tail!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.121.186.28 (talk) 11:48, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Bank Of England now owns 33% of all UK government debt (May 2012)

message: Two pages on my website have lots of data, carefully linked to original sources: Conventional Gilts, ≥1946, and Gilts: linkers and perpetuals and floaters. Obviously wikipedians should, as much as possible, prefer to cite the linked source rather than my pages. JDAWiseman (talk) 09:45, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for citations 

message: It would be interesting to see a chart of the amount outstanding over decades and centuries. -- Beland (talk) 16:42, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats 

message: I'm curious how the payments actually get made. Bearer bond and Coupon (finance) describe one way of doing it - the bond holder has a physical piece of paper, and they get cash when they present the paper. (And they detach a separate piece of paper for each intermediate interest payment, if any.) That must create a problem of people failing to show up on time to collect that money and unpaid debt just sort of sits around? But with the undated bonds, it seems like the holders would have to be registered somehow so that they can receive ongoing interest payments and then suddenly the principal when the government decides to pay that. It would be interesting to know which sort of system was used for what and when in the UK, and the benefits and problems of each system. -- Beland (talk) 16:57, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logistics of payment 

message: I have cut the excessively-long blow-by-blow essay about two weeks in a +400 year history of gilts which was actually mostly about fiscal policy and the LDI crisis, not gilts, and does not provide a balanced commentary (e.g. it did not mention that gilt prices started spiking before the budget, not after, nor did it mention that the £65bn facility from the Bank wasn't needed and was barely used (and what money was used actually turned a profit for the Bank), nor did it mention the authorities had been warned about LDI risk for years and the rising gilt prices did not cause the problems rather it exposed them, nor that Sterling had been plummeting against the US Dollar for the previous nine straight months at no less rapid a rate as it did after the budget).  It's also one of many times gilt prices have spiked over 400+ years, yet none of these other events is mentioned even though many were larger spikes with more significant long-term effects.  Any restoration of text relating to the events of October 2022 should be proportionate to the overall scope and size of the article, specific to gilts, and balanced.  If you want Wikipedia to record the LDI crisis, there is a page for LDI. 82.21.19.72 (talk) 01:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  LDI crisis