31st Mar - EURUSD turns down, Greece

30th Mar - French elections, Yellen & Bernanke, Greece

29th Mar - W/E: Weekly Support

Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. This post will be updated as new material is published.

27th Mar - Boring

26th Mar - Finland aims for austerity

26th Mar - Paven ja Hellun sössönsööt

Rautio on klassinen HS-päätoimituskirjoittelija - varttifantsuttelija, jonka harmitus siitä, että "väärät" ihmiset olivat oikeassa, on läpinäkyvää. Taidot ja tiedot eivät riittäneet olla oikeassa oikeaan aikaan. Hänen mielestään neutraalia toimitustyötä on se, että ensin fantsutellaan, ja sitten kun fantsuttelun epäonnistuminen on kaikille ilmiselvää, tunnustetaan, että metsään meni.

25th Mar - European optimism, premature?

24th Mar - PMIs show divergences

23rd Mar - Round up the usual suspects

Henri M:

A tough question (I want to draw attention also from Keep Talking Greece asking politely how this matter is handled in Greek media, because I have still difficulties to follow the Greek news):

23rd Mar - Greece in spotlight

22nd Mar - W/E: Linkfest

21st Mar - W/E: Weekly Support

Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. This post will be updated as new material is published.

20th Mar - Dull end of a nervous week

19th Mar - More post-Fed, EURUSD's roundtrip

18th Mar - Fed presents a dovish surprise

17th Mar - Eyes on Fed

16th Mar - Fed week, Europe the same

16th Mar - Guest: Currency war - The China Syndrome

Here is the latest cross-post from Macronomics - enjoy!

15th Mar - W/E: Weekly Support

Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. This post will be updated as new material is published.

13th Mar - EURUSD continues down

12th Mar - USD still ruling

11th Mar - EUR still offered & Borg

11th Mar - Finland's price

Ei isoja heilahteluita merkillepantavaa voimakas nousu finanssikriisin alkaessa. Huono juttu Suomelle.

Sama vähän lyhyemmältä ajanjaksolta - Suomen euron devalvoituminen on ollut melko pientä. Mukana helmikuu 2015 lukemat, joten ihan viimeisin euron heikkous / dollarin vahvuus ei tässä vielä näy.

Suomi ja Ruotsin pitkällä aikavälillä. Aika käsi kädessä niitä devalvaatioita aikoinaan puuhattiin.

Suomi-Ruotsi lyhyellä aikajänteellä

10th Mar - USD rally continues

9th March - Another Eurogroup

9th Mar - Charts

Random charts, random comments:

9th Mar: Credit Guest: Information cascade

Here is the latest cross-post by Macronomics.

8th Mar - W/E: Linkfest

8th Mar - W/E: Weekly Support

Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. This post will be updated as new material is published.

6th Mar - Another strong US job report

5th Mar - ECB-meeting provided the goods

5th Mar - ECB Previews

5th Mar - ULC charts

4th Mar - FOMC 2009 transcripts published

3rd Mar - Waiting mode

2nd Mar - Random thoughts: ECB

I often start writing an article, and something else comes up, or space is limited, and I never publish the draft. Here are couple of such texts:

The ECB, its mandate and unconventional monetary policy

While the ECB is bound by the treaties and is not allowed to finance member states directly, it could take the "ensuring proper transmission of monetary policy, buying in the secondary markets"-route. It has done this with SMP. It can go off-balance-sheet, Enron-style, and buy bonds issued by the European Stability Mechanism or the European Investment Bank, which could funnel money to governments or alternatively finance infrastructure projects directly and bypass the governments. I doubt much good would follow from another mammoth EU-project. The track record of Brussels is appalling.

But as Draghi hinted, much like Bernanke has previously, if fiscal policy is tight, structures are inelastic and a common budget to alleviate asymmetrical shocks is missing, monetary policy becomes a blunt weapon – though still effective, it requires more force, which could have unwanted consequences.

Could even more dovish and unconventional monetary policy be supported with macro-prudential policies? Experiences with shadow banks, self-regulation and too-big-to-fails suggest that it would probably not work

I am siding with the NGDP-targeting crowd and market monetarists here. The easiest thing to do would be to end the 2%-target. It is not listed in the treaties, it is only a result of a consensus of the executive board. If they voted and agreed to a target of 4% with caveats, it would become reality.

2nd Mar - ECB, US payrolls this week

1st Mar - W/E: Linkfest

Here are the weekend's links on the world, economics and a bit more relaxing off-topic reading.

1st Mar - W/E: Best of the Week

Hand-picked links from my ending week's posts.

1st Mar - W/E: Weekly Support

Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. This post will be updated as new material is published.