“… this is the first time such an event has ever occurred. But I’m confident about this, the idea didn’t emanate from CNBC’s headquarters. It had to come from those who have an interest in maintaining power by making sure the public is kept as uninformed and apathetic as possible… I think it was the fact that I laid out the math behind a sovereign debt collapse in both Japan and the United States. I think so much of the quiescence in yields in the bond markets in both America and Japan depends on confidence. ”