Talk:GKO

Bills-> bonds
I changed "treasury bills" or "bills" into bonds, though I'm not sure. I think "bonds" are better, because "bills" can be confused with banknotes. If you are sure that it should be "bills", then feel free to revert it. Crocodealer 09:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Expand or translate title
How strongly-entrenched is the three-letter name "GKO"? Wikipedia conventions would favour expanding the abbreviation and translating the name, if appropriate. Should this article be moved to "Russian State Short-term Bonds" or "Gosudarstvennoe Kratkosrochnoe Obyazatelstvo"?


 * I worked on the trading systems for MICEX at the time. They are definately called GKO and no one ever expanded it out in conversation or the specs for the trading system writing as far as I ever saw. We called them 'Geckos'. 203.158.49.170 mianos

Scale of default
Can we say how many roubles the 1988 default was, and who ended up loosing by the default. Rod57 (talk) 19:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

No Ponzi scheme
Issuing new debt to pay off old debt doesn't make the Russian Finance Ministry resemble a pyramid scheme or Ponzi scheme. That is how most sovereign debt works. I'm deleting the fourth paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.56.161.30 (talk) 22:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)