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Paul Krugman called this "the moron risk premium"

BTW the FT link says it seems to have been coined by a Dario Perkins...

As in "risk premium as determined by a moron"?

The UK's situation is no different from continental redistributionist disasters - big government, too much spending.

The only reason why the US hasn't fallen to that level is that the dollar is a major reserve currency.