Lunch update: PIMCO on Eurocrisis transmission channels, UK's creative accounting
News And Market Re-Cap – RanSquawk / ZH
Today in the euro zone: Monti’s labours – MacroScope / Reuters
The Lunch Wrap – alphaville / FT
EZ Crisis Daily Press Summary – Open Europe
EZ Crisis Daily Press Summary – Open Europe
EURO CRISIS
Transmission Channels – PIMCO
A disorderly Greek default, if it occurs, would likely shock the eurozone and the globe via at least four transmission channels: the European banking system, European sovereign debt markets, corporate financing markets and regional trade.
The Eurozone in Crisis: Origins and Prospects – La Follette (pdf)
1) the common currency and its monetary policy were applied to a set of economies that were very different one from the other 2) investors interpreted the creation of the union as an implicit guarantee of member countries’ government debt.
To Bail Or Not To Bail: A Simple Question Of Math; And Why Taxpayers Will Be On The Hook Until The End – ZH
Credit Suisse calculates not bailing out European periphery (= bailing out banks) €681bn, bailing out European periphery €628bn.
IMF and ECB Bailouts "Created" Huge Bondholder Losses; More Haircuts Coming Up – Mish’s
The market is already predicting another 75% collapse in Greek bonds. Ultimately any fools that threw money at Greece (without CDS protection) will lose every cent, except of course the idiots who insisted on the bailouts in the first place: the ECB and IMF.
German foreign minister invited ministers from France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
UK budget to be represented on Wednesday at 12:30 GMT, AAA rating at risk, more stimulation needed but fiscal position is already difficult.
Has Osborne taken a crash course in Portuguese accounting? – Open Europe
Apparently, the UK government is taking over the Royal Mail pension funds, transferring its assets and liabilities onto the government balance sheet.
OTHER
Last year, the yen reached a post-war high against the dollar and a record high against the euro. This column looks at the recent trend in the Japanese currency and outlines what Japan’s policymakers should do about it.
Three’s a Crowd – The Epicurean Dealmaker
the conversion of Goldman Sachs and other investment banks from private partnerships owned and run by their employees for the benefit of their employees to publicly-traded corporations beholden to third party shareholders permanently and irrevocably upset the historical balance at the core of my industry…
Hedge Fund Market Wizards – Amazon
Jack D. Schwager, the author of the classic Market Wizards-books, is coming out with a new book, other books by Schwager here. The book is out in May, preorder now.