The Pew's poll on European attitudes toward the EU are out. Makes for interesting reading, especially against the backdrop of further integration. Also, more on Japan's Abenomics.
Previously on MoreLiver’s:
Roundups &
Commentary
Frontrunning – ZH
Overnight: Sentiment Following German Confidence Miss – ZH
The Lunch Wrap – alphaville
/ FT
Emerging N.Y. headlines – beyondbrics
/ FT
Daily press summary – Open Europe
Morning MoneyBeat: The Mother of All Short Squeezes – WSJ
Turn Around Tuesday or Not – Marc
to Market
Morning Briefing
(EU/US): Collateral Damage – BNY
Mellon
Assessing
the domestic fall-out from the BOJ's campaign.
EUROPE
Europeans must face up to prospect of massive
debt restructuring – The
Telegraph
Europe’s bourses have not done as well as others from
renewed investor appetite for equities, but even the depression-hit eurozone
periphery has seen big gains in share prices since the sovereign debt crisis
began to abate last summer.
The Resistible Fall of Europe: An
Interview with George Soros – Project
Syndicate
On May 12, George
Soros was awarded the Tiziano Terzani Prize for his 2012 book Financial Turmoil
published in Italy by Hoepli. The following interview is adapted from a press conference
held in Udine, Italy, on that occasion.
Cameron’s dilemma – MacroScope
/ Reuters
The EU on Monday said
many Cypriot banks do not know who their customers really are, but wired Nicosia €2 billion anyway.
Luxembourg, one of the EU's smallest but richest
countries, has said No to a new law against tax evasion.
Euro Zone Members GDP Performance since 2007 in
One Table – Marc
to Market
A color-coded tracking
of how the individual members of the euro
have done in terms of GDP and its composition since 2007.
PEW’S
POLL
Of stereotypes and the slow end of the European
affair – alphaville
/ FT
Some charts from Pew’s
latest survey of 8,000 people across eight EU countries, most of whom are
increasingly *insert euphamism* with Europe
France, Greece and Spain have seen a sharp drop in pro-EU sentiment, but Germany is on "another planet," a new survey
says.
A PEW study on
European Attitudes shows social mood is darkening in the Eurozone, but
especially in France (78 pages).
UNITED STATES
Crises Before and After the Creation of the Fed – FRBSF
via The Big Picture
ASIA
The Real Experiment That Is Being Carried Out
In Japan – Fistful
of Euros
It takes a regime shift – Christina
Romer / Berkeley (pdf)
Recent developments in
Japanese monetary policy through the lense of the Great Depression.
OTHER
Steen Jakobsen: In the Bermuda triangle of economics there is plenty of
scientific evidence which can explain most, if not everything, of what is going
on but that does not suit Hollywood, sorry the Federal Reserve.
FINNISH
KHO:
Suomen ja Kreikan vakuussopimus on julkistettava – YLE
Korkeimman hallinto-oikeuden mukaan Suomen ja
Kreikan välinen vakuussopimus on julkinen pankkien tunnistetietoja
lukuunottamatta. Korkein hallinto-oikeus antoi tänään tiistaina ratkaisunsa
asiassa
Urpilainen:
Nyt pelisäännöt ovat tiedossa – TalSa
Valtionvarainministeri Jutta Urpilaisen (sd.)
mukaan Korkeimman hallinto-oikeuden ratkaisu selkeyttää julkisuuslain
tulkintaa. Oikeuden päätöksen mukaan valtiovarainministeriön on osin
julkistettava Kreikan kanssa tehdyn vakuussopimuksen asiakirjat.
Inflaatio
hidastui huhtikuussa 1,5 prosenttiin – Tilastokeskus
Suomen
kansalaisuuden saaneita ennätysmäärä vuonna 2012 – Tilastokeskus