http://www.pimco.com/Pages/GermanyinaLose-LoseSituation.aspx

• The problem
  is that the current approach – centred on dealing with liquidity
  problems now and solvency issues later – is not working.
• A liquidity
  approach that delays the day of reckoning may be good regional
  politics, but it’s bad economics. It does not restore sustainable
  growth to the periphery, and it exposes the core to contamination.
• Rather than
  simply doubling up on a faltering liquidity approach, the time has come
  for Germany to lead a more holistic solution focused on addressing the
  periphery’s debt overhang and competitiveness problems.

This is not the first
time that Germany faces such a dilemma. After the fall of the Berlin
wall, West Germany judged that good politics trumped bad economics, and
agreed to reunify with much-weaker East Germany at a one-to-one exchange
rate. It took years to overcome the costs of this decision.

— bookstaber le nouveau régulateur, souhaitons-lui bonne chance,  le système financier s’en porterait mieux! http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/23/is-the-sec-fighting-last-years-war/ —

What is the hardest part of securities regulation?

If you find a valve in a nuclear power plant that isn’t working right and replace it, the valve is not going to try to fool you into thinking it’s on when it’s really off. In the market, traders will try to fool you. In other words, there’s a realm of feedback and gaming that can occur in the financial markets that doesn’t occur in an engineering system. That makes developing rules much more difficult for Wall Street than for safety in engineering.

— comme le dit draghi: "sov debt repricing is natural and welcome, but overshooting can create permanent damage to monetary policy transmission channels"  http://video.ft.com/v/704855941001/Draghi-survival-of-euro-not-in-question- —

— une autre course que celle à la dévaluation, celle au développement! http://devdata.worldbank.org/DataVisualizer/ —

— ahah, j’adore le concept: QT chinois pour contrecarrer les externalités négatives du QE ricain! http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/11/24/414956/here-comes-the-quantitative-tightening —

[…]quantitative tightening (or QT) is coming to the People’s Republic of China very soon indeed.

And by QT we mean tightening by any means other than lifting interest rates directly.

As HSBC has already argued, this makes sense because it really is the only possible antidote to US quantitative easing for China — which under the existing trade framework ends up absorbing much of the US-created QE2 inflationary effect.

— cool résumé de qui a son doigt pris dans l’engrenage irlandais. et jusqu’où. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/datablog/2010/nov/22/ireland-bailout-bank-… —

— au fait, sait-on encore entre quels états se situent la californie et l’illinois? simple, non? entre la hongrie et la roumanie évidemment! en ce qui concerne le risque souverain tout du moins… —

— ou pourquoi allemagne et france se trouvent si solidaires de la périphérie… http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c4b5f456-ee7e-11df-9db0-00144feab49a.html#axzz15Qr74rZv —