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Saturday, June 29

29th Jun - Weekender: The World, Markets, Finnish



Leif Salmén Seura 13.6.2013:
“41-vuotias Katainen ei ole visas eikä osaava, hän on vain nuori ja innokas...Suomesta on tullut hallintokiimainen konsultokratia, jossa byrokratia syö yritysten alkuperäiset tehtävät...Arhinmäki on Kataisen ja Urpilaisen hyödyllinen idiootti.”

”Lipponen ajoi pääministerinä valtaeliitin ja liike-elämän asiaa. Suomi vietiin Euroopan unioniin ja rahaliitto Emuun. Lipponen liittoutui valtiovarainministerinsä Sauli Niinistön kanssa. Sen seurauksena Suomi on suurissa vaikeuksissa ja euroalue sosiaalisen hädän ja hajoamisen tilanteessa...On vain ajan kysymys, milloin euroalue halvaantuu ja hajoaa. Urpilainen ei ymmärrä tästä yhtään mitään.”


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EUROPE
Brussels blog round-up for 22 – 28 JuneEuropp / LSE
MEPs in the limelight, France vs. the European Commission, and the EU’s new budget deal.

The EU Executive Is Being Assailed from All SidesWSJ
Some governments are beginning to realize the consequences of their actions. Having bought the mostly German prescription for dealing with the crisis, they are now suffering buyers' remorse.

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for 2012ECB

Portugal and the euro: Floundering onThe Economist

Germany in the world: The occasional leaderThe Economist

  SUMMIT & BANKING UNION
The Road to a European Banking Union: Part IPIIE
http://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime/?p=3720

EU summit: Merkel hits out at Anglo Irish tapesBrussels Blog / FT

Banking Union: A small step forwardNordea

European Council: “Plenty of talk, little money”Presseurop

After sticking it to Ireland a few years back, EU "fixes" the bank bailout planSober Look


UNITED STATES
Chart of the Day - Mortgage Debt and Housing WealthMacronomics
The gain in home prices has translated to a $1.8tr increase in housing wealth, recovering nearly a third of the cumulative loss from the peak.

Eric Sprott: "Have We Lost Control Yet?"ZH
At the last FOMC meeting, by prematurely announcing the timeline and the specifics of an exit from QE, Bernanke might have lost control of rates and volatility. The current US economic growth is still feeble and hinges on housing, which would be slowed down by raising rates. Banks, while better capitalized than pre-crisis, are still not lending to most borrowers and would be dearly affected by too fast increases in rates. Moreover, European woes still threaten the stability of the international financial system and the recent rush to the exit might further exacerbate funding pressures for weak European banks. Finally, the US government (amongst others) debt load, while already unsustainable, would keep on climbing if rates were to increase only by 100bps.

  FEDERAL RESERVE
Federal Reserve policy in 7 metaphorsWonkblog / WP
Cold turkeys, fast cars, and spiked punchbowls

The ‘FOMC Parade’Historinhas
The Fed/FOMC is never wrong. It is markets that ‘misunderstand’ it! But they conveniently forget that as the “market” in market monetarism implies, market reaction IS the policy.

How the Fed lost control of short term interest ratesGavyn Davies / FT
The declines in the prices of bonds and many risk assets since the Fed’s policy announcements last week have followed a sharp rise in the market’s expected path for US short rates in 2014 and 2015. This seems to have come as surprise to some Fed officials.

Buttonwood: Cut off by their sugar daddyThe Economist
The pattern is wearily familiar. In every year since 2010 global markets have started the year in optimistic mood only to run into trouble in the late spring and early summer. This time there is little doubt about the cause. The Federal Reserve has suggested that, unless the American economy deteriorates, it may start to slow the pace of its asset purchases

Stein Adds to Chorus Saying Markets Misread Bernanke – WSJ
Stein Full Speech In Which A "Hypothetical" September Taper Is Announced – ZH
Lacker: Further Market Volatility ‘Likely’ – WSJ
Lacker: "Falling Markets Should Not Be Too Surprising... Further Volatility Seems Likely" – ZH
Fed’s Williams: Fed Bond Buying Outlook Depends On Economy – WSJ

  MACRO NUMBERS
Final June Consumer Sentiment at 84.1, Chicago PMI declines to 51.6 – Calculated Risk
Chicago PMI Plummets By Most In Over 4 Years; Weather Blamed – ZH
Extreme Volatility in Chicago PMI – Bespoke
Chicago PMI Weaker Than Expected – Bespoke


ASIA
  JAPAN
Advantage Abealphaville / FT
The first bits of post-Abenomics data are finally trickling in. And so far, it has to be said, it’s looking good for Shinzo Abe. Lombard Street Research’s Michael Taylor takes us through the initial findings

  CHINA
PBOC Head To "Address Liquidity At Proper Time" Even As China's Bad Loan Giant AwakesZH
It is precisely this shadow banking industry that the PBOC is now targeting: an industry that if eliminated will take some 70% of China's GDP with it, unless of course, the PBOC finds a way to inject a matched amount of credit to undo what the punditry will realize with its 6-8 week usual delay, the most unprecedented forced deleveraging in Chinese history. The embedded risk? Spiralling, disorderly defaults.

The three pillars of Likonomics, China’s path to growthMarketWatch
Barclays Capital has a word for Premier Li Keqiang’s plan for China’s growth: Likonomics… In a nutshell, Likonomics stands for short-term pain leading to long-term gain.

China, the devaluation possibilityalphaville / FT
A couple of points from Deutsche Bank’s GEM Equity strategy team on Friday to file under the “it’s China, not the Fed, that’s driving everything at the moment” meme:

China’s cash crunch: Bear in the China shopThe Economist
China suddenly seems to be exactly five years behind America. After several years of excessive credit, much of it in the shadows of the banking system, China’s financial institutions stopped lending to each other this month; on June 20th interbank interest rates briefly soared to 25%. The crunch seemed horribly reminiscent of America’s financial crisis in 2008, from which it has yet to recover in full.

Financial reforms: Re-education through ShiborThe Economist
China’s leadership shows a welcome toughness but also an alarming clumsiness.


OTHER
Corzine’s disgraceFelix Salmon / Reuters
The CFTC complaint we were waiting for has now arrived: MF Global, Jon Corzine, and MF’s former assistant treasurer, Edith O’Brien, have all been charged with misusing — stealing, effectively — almost $1 billion in customer funds.

Economists Tackle Puzzle of Libor Losses for InvestorsBloomberg

Weekend Reads for Investors: Navigating the NoiseCFA Institute

Some essential papers in behavioral financeNoahpinion

Friday links: risk parity editionAbnormal Returns
Risk parity has been all the rage. The risk parity wave even hit the pages of USA Today earlier this month. and was in the Wall Street Journal today. In the meantime the strategy has come under a great deal of scrutiny due its generally poor performance during the run-up in interest rates this month.

Strategy: Capitulation paves way for consolidation in risk assetsDanske Bank (pdf)

The Power Of The Financial LobbyTestosterone Pit
 “For 25 Years, It’s Never Been The Right Moment” To Tighten

Financial dislocationPieria
One way or another, the additional money created by central banks was supposed to find its way out into the wider economy, stimulating new investment, creating jobs and generally increasing economic activity. But this isn't happening. Economies in the developed world remain flat, while the additional money created by QE has gone to inflate asset bubbles and increase inflation in emerging markets. Why has the additional money not gone where it was intended to go?

Wage and/or price stickiness?The Money Illusion
“Wage and/or Price Stickiness?” IllustratedHistorinhas

A Priest, A Banker And A Spook Walk Into The Vatican's Money-Laundering Rabbit Hole...ZH

Crisis Chronicles: 300 Years of Financial Crises (1620–1920)N.Y. FED

An Interview With Dr. Daniel KahnemanThe Motley Fool
Dr. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics, joins us to discuss his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and how different systems of thought can affect our judgment when making decisions.


FINNISH
Mitä se EU:sta eroaminen maksaa?Mauri Nygård / US Puheenvuoro
Kysytään, mitä se eroaminen EU:sta ja eurosta maksaisi, ja jotkut vastaavat rintaäänellä, että kalliiksi tulisi. Kuitenkin koko kysymys on väärä. Pitää kysyä, mitä Suomi erossa voittaa? Oikeat kysymykset ovatkin tärkeämpiä kuin oikeat vastaukset.

Oppositio ohitti hallituspuolueet: Kokoomus painunut kolmanneksiYLE
Keskusta jatkaa ykkösenä Yle Uutisten kesäkuun kannatustutkimuksessa. Toisena on perussuomalaiset. Kokoomus on vasta hienoisesti kolmantena. SDP on jäänyt selvästi johtokolmikosta.

Keskuspankkien rahapoliittinen elvytys ei ole samalla tavoin veronmaksajien piikistä kuin valtion velkaantuminentyhmyri

Talousvaikuttajat voivat puhua eurokriisistä vapaasti vasta eläkkeelläPerussuomalaiset
Juhani Huopainen: Useat demaritaustaiset kansantalouden ja rahoitustoimintojen keskeiset vaikuttajat ovat eläkkeelle päästyään avanneet suunsa eurooppa- ja europolitiikasta. Perussuomalainen kokosi vaikuttajien julkisuudessa esitettämiä puheenvuoroja - ne ovat jyrkässä ristiriidassa SDP:n esittämien rahaliittolinjojen ja kriisinhoitomenetelmien kanssa.

Euroalueen kriisi pohjoisesta katsottunaSuomen Pankki
Seppo Honkapohja: Tutkielmassa luodaan katsaus valtion velkakriisiin. Ensiksi tarkastellaan kriisin syntymistä, ja sen jälkeen pohditaan talouspolitiikan valintoja rahoituskriisin puhjettua. Lisäksi arvioidaan kriisimaiden sopeutumisprosesseja, muun muassa sitä, millä vaihtoehtoisilla politiikkatoimenpiteillä voidaan tasapainottaa julkista taloutta säästämisen sijaan. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan myös institutionaalisia uudistuksia, jotka edistävät meneillään olevan kriisin ratkaisemista ja auttavat ehkäisemään mahdollisen tulevan kriisin. Erityisesti pankkiunioni ja vahvistettu vakaus- ja kasvusopimus sekä vastaavat institutionaaliset säännöt ovat mainitsemisen arvoisia esimerkkejä tällaisista institutionaalisista uudistuksista. Tärkein ratkaisua kaipaava ongelma ovat korkeat julkiset ja yksityiset velka-asteet yhdessä pankkien heikkojen taseiden kanssa.

SP:n Honkapohja: EU tarvitsee kipeästi pankkiunioniaTalSa
Pankkiunionin perustaminen on olennaista Euroopan finanssimarkkinoiden toiminnan parantamiseksi, toteaa Suomen Pankin (SP) johtokunnan jäsen, valtiotieteen tohtori Seppo Honkapohja. Finanssikriisi on hänen mukaansa tehnyt selväksi sen, että Eurooppa tarvitsee yhtenäisen valvontajärjestelmän pankeilleen.

Jo oli aikakin sijoittajan vastuun kasvaaSavon Sanomat
Jos taas euro hävitettäisiin tyystin, seurauksena olisi joukko kevyitä valuuttoja, jotka heilahtelisivat holtittomasti spekulanttien keinotekoisissa myrskyissä...Ruotsiin Suomea tai euroaluetta on epäreilua verrata. Ruotsin voi sanoa siivestäneen kruunuineen euroalueen kyljessä. Taaksepäin on muutenkin turha vilkuilla. Liiat peräpeiliin katsomiset johtavat ojaanajoon joka mutkassa.

Lähtivätkö asuntojen hinnat laskuun Helsingissä?YLE

Soini pyrkii pääministeriksi 2015SK