Weekend Links – Saturday June 16th

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Here is some things Reynard found interesting today.

Global Macro:

  • Cullen Roche on Risk Managed Optimism – Prag Cap. What he said!
  • Global Perfect Storm. Nouriel Roubini in Project Syndicate
  • But Central Banks stand ready to try to help out on Monday – Reuters. After that we can get back to worrying and wondering about Spain and Italy oh and France now too – see Merkel’s comments below.
  • Echos of the 30’s? Trade protectionism rises – WSJ Real Time Economics Blog
  • DE reckons we need a weekend caption competition for this – some decorum though please 🙂

United States:

Europe:

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  •  Sober Look on the widening German CDS spread – reflects the markets growing expectation Germany will backstop everyone which is still far from certain.
  • Deceptive Accounting in Spanish – Bloomberg. But Europe just stood by anyway – Bloomberg again.
  • MMMM, I didn’t realise this. Ordinary Spainiards holds lots of Bank Debt making it hard to impose haircuts, politically at least – Reuters
  • Ratings cuts. Dutch Banks (BBC), France (DW)
  • Draghi does it again. It’s up to the politicians – AP via Yahoo!Finance
  • Hollande reshapes Europe’s political discourse – Bloomberg
  • But Ange is a bit grumpy and slams the French economy – UK Telegraph
  • The UK is really suffering at the moment economically – Reuters and Reuters
  • A return to Victorian inequality – The Guardian
  • Could a big Bull Market in Europe be just around the corner? – Prag Cap

Asia:

  • Hong Kong Exchange buys the LME – FT
  • Egypt is not Asia but the twist this week that has seen the military back in charge has the potential to erupt Tahir square all over again – FT

Local:

  • What is it with the Fashion to bash the RBA that is creeping into the MSM from the lunatic periphery justifying why they were wrong and are wrong – Ian Verrender gives the debate oxygen
  • Gina ups her stake in Fairfax to 18% – The Oz
  • Paul Kelly says its time for the political class to wake up to Asia – The Oz
  • Australia should be feeding Asia – SMH

Interesting/Other stuff:

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  • My Daughter keeps dancing round the house singing “Call Me Maybe” – here is the CORGI Rae Jepsen version 🙂
  • I live near Williamtown Air Base in NSW so we see the F18’s all the time but here are some cool photos of breaking the sound barrier – Business Insider
  • Voyager reaches the edge of the Solar System – Reuters