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QE III or EXTENDED OPERATION TWIST - Increasing Probability for June FOMC
Fed Doves Ready to Act 06/17/12 Gavyn Davies
1- US Economy has slowed Markedly Since early Spring
2- Core Inflation is now Hovering Around the Fed's 2% Target

3- Financial Conditions Have been Tightening as the Economy Has Slowed
GOLDMAN: QE3 Coming Next Week 06/16/12 BI
We expect the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to ease monetary policy at next week’s scheduled meeting. Our baseline is a new asset purchase program that involves an expansion of the balance sheet, but an extension of Operation Twist and/or a further lengthening of the short- term interest rate guidance in the FOMC statement beyond the current “late 2014” formulation are also possible.
As for the weak economy, the numbers are really getting down there...
Disappointments across a broad range of indicators this week caused a two-tenths decline in our GDP tracking estimate for Q2 to 1.6%. Though the CPI excluding food and energy held at 2.3% year-on-year, we see increasing signs that core inflation will fall over the next year
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EU ROADMAP - Political & Banking Union
EXCLUSIVE - SECRET EU SUMMIT DOCUMENT shows first step to banking union 06/17/12 Telegraph
A classified draft of next week’s EU summit conclusions is the first step on an emerging “roadmap” to a:
- Banking Union: Pooling debt via eurobonds and
- Political Union: via EU treaty change over the next 10 years.
The “limite” text - published exclusively by The Daily Telegraph, is secret, restricted for the "eyes only" of diplomats and officials preparing for the 28 and 29 June European Council in Brussels.
Most of the text, the annexed “Compact for Growth and Jobs”, are deals on project bonds and other small scale EU initiatives that FranCois Hollande is trumpeting as a €120bn “growth pact”.
The first draft is relatively uncontroversial because the eurobond and "banking union" issues are currently all too sensitive to be committed to paper for officials.
Other so-called "non-papers" are circulating at a top secret level between national capitals and Brussels.
The difficult issues not included in the draft are the “p.m” items in the draft: “other financial stability measures” and “PEC report on EMU”.
Translated from the Brussels jargon, the PEC – president of the European Council – report will be Herman Van Rompuy’s preliminary text of the future of “Economic and Monetary Union”. This will be circulated in sealed envelopes next week.
The separate text will set out a “roadmap” to a banking union, polling debt via some kind of eurobonds and political union via EU treaty change over the next 10 years.
Also important and controversial is will the “other financial stability measures” paper, including financial transition tax proposal and moves towards a banking union that can be taken by the EU before the end of the year.
Britain faces major fight over an FTT, or some other banking levy, at a meeting of EU finance ministers on Friday ahead of the summit next week. The UK – which has no veto under current proposals on deepening EU banking regulation – also faces the ECB becoming Europe’s main banking regulator and the creation of national bank resolution funds that can be asked to contribute to European bank bailouts on a “compulsory” basis.
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French Socialists Win An Absolute Majority In Parliament 06/17/12 Zero Hedge
While everyone is focusing on Greece, we have news from France:
- FRENCH SOCIALISTS WIN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT, CSA SAYS
- FRENCH SOCIALISTS WON 320 SEATS, CSA SAYS; MAJORITY IS 289
- FRENCH SOCIALISTS WON'T NEED TO RELY ON LEFT FRONT, GREENS: CSA
Hollande's chief ministers, including Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, were elected in round one by scoring more than 50 percent of votes. Those in run-off contests, such as Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, are expected to win their seats. Hollande's former partner Segolene Royal faces an uphill battle in the western city of La Rochelle against a popular dissident Socialist candidate. In all, 36 deputies were elected outright last weekend and 541 constituencies are up for grabs on Sunday.
The Socialists have been concerned that low turnout might weigh on their score. Turnout at 5 p.m. was 46.2 percent, 3 percentage points down on the 2007 election and below that of last Sunday, when the final turnout hit a new low at 57 percent.
In France, Socialists Win a Solid Majority 06/17/12 WSJ
- Because a Socialist-led coalition already controls the Senate, the upper house, Mr. Hollande will now have a supportive Parliament to back his policies.
- The Socialist Party and its allies won 314 of the National Assembly's 577 seats, according to results compiled by the French Interior Ministry. The tally shows that Mr. Hollande won't need to rely on the additional support of lawmakers from the Green and far-left Leftist Front parties.
- Mr. Hollande may have to shelve some of his costly proposals—such as hiring 12,000 civil servants a year—and instead resort to an unpopular mix of spending cuts and tax increases.
- The French president has been lobbying in favor of introducing euro bonds, a code word for jointly issued debt, to help countries such as Spain and Italy borrow at affordable cost. But Ms. Merkel has warned that any additional solidarity among Europeans would require forging a more integrated political union.
- The Franco-German debate could be heading into a stalemate because French people have shown little appetite for the idea of transferring more sovereignty to Brussels, where the European Union has its headquarters.
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The Bang! Moment is Here 06/16/12 John Mauldin


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CRONY CAPITALISM - Insideous, Controlled, Relentless and Stealth Changes
Regulators Weigh Easing of Global Bank Rules 06/15/12 WSJ
International regulators are poised to ease a core element of new banking rules that were designed to improve the safety of the financial system, with some regulators fearing that plowing ahead with the tougher requirements could exacerbate the current European crisis . Among the planned changes, one would allow a wider variety of assets—such as gold and equities—to count toward banks' liquidity buffers, according to people involved in the talks.
a growing number of central bankers and regulators have come to accept industry arguments that in the current environment, it will be nearly impossible for banks to comply with the liquidity rules. Further, they say, forcing them to try could precipitate dangerous cash crunches at some institutions.
The changes are likely to be welcomed by the banking industry and some policy makers. But some outside experts say it could be a mistake to loosen the rules. The rule in question is known as the "liquidity coverage ratio." It will force banks to hold large enough quantities of certain assets, such as cash and government bonds, that would enable banks to weather a theoretical 30-day liquidity crisis. The idea is that some assets are sufficiently liquid that, even in the heat of a crisis, banks will be able to sell them on the market to drum up cash. The rule is supposed to take effect in 2015.
Slobbering Senators Woo Dimon While They Gut Dodd-Frank 06/17/12 Bloomberg
Neither Dodd-Frank nor the Volcker Rule nor bank-capital requirements nor the other regulations that will ultimately get written -- with a lot of help from Wall Street’s lawyers and lobbyists -- will change the behavior of the hundreds of thousands of bankers, traders and executives who work on Wall Street and who do the things every hour of every day that slowly but surely have had a tendency to lead to the collective action that cause financial crises. People are pretty simple: They do what they are rewarded to do. At this very moment on Wall Street, smart, well-educated people are being rewarded to take big risks with other people’s money. Because that’s what they get paid to do -- often in the millions of dollars each year -- it is hardly surprising that they continue to do it. Need some evidence? President Barack Obama signed the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank law nearly two years ago, in July 2010. At the time, with great bravado, he said, “These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history. In history.” |
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CRONY CPAITALSIM |
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